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PROPHECIES 

OF THE BIBLE 

THE WORLD WAR 

THE KAISER AND THE TURK 

THE SECOND COMING OF 

CHRIST AND THE 

MILLENNIUM 



AN INTERPRETATION OF THE BOOKS OF DAN- 

lEL AND REVELATION IN THE LIGHT OF 

THE HAPPENINGS OF THE DAY. 



DISCLOSING AMONG OTHER THINGS THE BEAST WITH 
THE MYSTICAL NUMBER 656, THE FALSE PROPHET, 
THE ANTI-CHRIST, AND THE BEAST WHO DECREES 
THAT NONE SHALL BUY OR SELL EXCEPT 
THEY RECEIVE HIS MARK IN THEIR RIGHT 
HAND OR HIS MARK ON THEIR FORE- 
HEAD. 

By GOKDOJN" WHITE 



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COPYRIGHT 1918 BY F. K. ATKINS 

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PUBLISHERS 
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TO OUR BOYS IN THE ARMY AND 
THE NAVY. 



Yours is a great mision. You represent 
our beloved Country and the lofty principles 
for which it stands, at a time when the 
attention and hopes and the confidence of 
tlie world is centered unon this nation and 
upon you. You have our fullest confidence 
and support. Not among the least of your 
chievements, in company with the armies 
cf our Allies, is to safeguard the honor of 
the women of France, Italy and elsewhere, 
and contribute in a most striking contrast 
with the enemy, to the restoration of con- 
fidence in the manhood of the soldier and 
the sailor. 

Be as chivalrous as the Knights of Old. 
Guard those women from the Germans and 
from all others. As you would have anoth- 
er do by your mother, wife, sister, sweet- 
heart or daughter, so do you protect them, 
and thereby render honor and glory to the 
X.ord of Hosts, to our Country and our Flag. 

We wish you good luck. And may the 

Lord of Hosts bless you each and every one. 

Most Cordially and Fraternally Yours, 

THE AUTHOR. 



PROPHESIES OF THE BIBLE 



The Kaiser and the Turk 

The Second Coming of Christ 

and 

The IVIiUennium 



AN INTERPRETATION IN 
THE LIGHT OF THE HAPPENINGS OF THE DAY 



Disclosing Among Other- Things 
The Beast With The Mystical Niimher 666 

AND 

The Beast Who Decrees That None Shall 

Buy Or Sell Except They Receive His Marh 

In Their Right Hand Or His Mark On Their Forehead. 



By goedojn" white 



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C'oPYKKiHT 1918 By 
F. K. Atkins 

-ordon Publishing Company, Tampa, Florida., Publishers 



THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



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The Burden ^\^ 

"O God," I cried, "Why may I not forget? 
These halt and hurt in life's hard battle 

Throng me yet. 
Am I their keeper? Only I — to bear 
This constant burden of their grief and 

care ? 
Why must I suffer for the other's sin? 
W^ould that mine eyes had never opened 

been." 
And the thorn-crowned and patient One 
Replied: "They thronged me too; and I 

have seen." 

"Thy other children go at will," I said, 

protesting still; 
"They go unheeding. But these sick and 

sad; 
These blind and orphan, yea, and those 

that sin 
Drag at my heart, for them I serve and 

groan, 
Why is it? Let me rest, Lord. I have 

tried," — 
He turned and looked at me; "But I have 

died." 

"But Lord, this ceaseless travail of my 
soul; 

This stress: This often fruitless toil these 
souls to win. 

They are not mine. I brought not forth 
this host 

Of needy creatures, struggling tempest- 
tossed — 

They are not mine." 

He looked at them— the look of one Divine. 

He turned and looked at me: "But they are 
mine." 

"O God," I said, "I understand at last. 
Forgive, and henceforth I will bond-slave 

be 
To Thy least, weakest, vilest ones; 

I would not more to be free." 
He smiled and said: "It is to me." 

—LUCY RIDER MEYER. 



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Contents 

PAGE 

GREETING:— GOOD CHEER 4 

, THE UNFOLDING OF THE PROPHECIES 5 

EXPLANATION CHART I 6 

CHART 1 7 

TO THE WOMEN 8 

THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. THE UNPARDONABLE SIN 8 

WILL POWER , - 9 

1. — The United States a Christian Nation. The Dominant F'aith, the Pro- 
testant Faith 10 

II.— The Mandate of the Lord to a King. The Law of God 12 

III. — Nebuchadnezzar's Dream. The Four Great World Monarchies 16 

IV. — Daniel's First Vision. The Kaiser. His Dominion Shall be Taken Away 18 

V. — Daniel's Second Vision. The Kaiser Again. Gabriel's Interpretation. 

He Shall be Broken Without Hand. (That is by Divine Power.) 20 

VI. — Autocracy Against Democracy. The Crescent Against the Cross 22 

VII.— Daniel's Third Vision. The Turk, the King of the South. Russia, the 

King of the North , 25 

VIII.— The Turk. The False Prophet. The Anti-Christ 26 

IX.— Collateral Subjects and Events 29 

X. — The World War. The Kaiser and Allies, the King of the South. Russia 

and her Allies, the King of the North 32 

XI.— The World War Continued, Germany Herself Will Destroy the Kaiser 34 

XII. — Collateral Subjects. Pending Reforms 35 

XIIL— Nero Not the Beast With the Mystical No. 666 38 

XIV.— The Two Beasts. The Turk and the Kaiser 39 

XV. — The Second Coming of Christ 42 

EXPLANATION OF CHART II 44 

CHART II 45 

XVI.— The Book of Revelation Interpreted 48 

XVIL— The Millennium 59 

ADDENDUM, 

XVIII. — Touching Upon the Problems of Capital and Labor: The Boards of 

Trade: The Curb: The Stock Exchanges 60 

XIX. — Our Court Procedure Needs Revision 62 

From An Address by Lent. General Smutts 64 

We Bow to the French and the English 64 



THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



GREETING : 

A Message of Good Cheer to ALL who are 
fighting, workmg and giving to the Cause 
for the Liberty of Man in the Battle of That 
Great Day of God Almighty. 



The Lord God has decreed that evil will 
be finally overcome; and that the true and 
ultimate power even in this world belongs 
to Christ and those who are His. 



It is safe to lay down this principle as a 
foundation to work upon. That no person, 
or combination of persons, can dethrone 
right and justice, no matter the means, 
whether by usurpation, chicanery, trickery 
or fraud, and hold out for all time, when ex- 
posed, against God's Truth. The Voice of 
God becomes the voice of man. 



"He is the Rock; His works are perfect; 
A God of Truth and without Iniquity. 
Just and Right is He."— Deu. 32-4. 



"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying 
speak — and proclaim liberty throughout all 
the land unto the inhabitants thereof. It 
shall be a jubilee unto you." — Lev. 25:1-10. 



THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM 



The Unfolding of the Prophecies 



TO THE READER :- 



Many Bible students, though conscious of 
the fact that the prophesies are clothed in 
mystery, impressed with the unprecedented 
events of the day, are making a careful 
study thereof, and the writer, a layman, with 
great modesty, presents the following for 
your consideration. 

A number of the keys have been found 
and are given in their relation, which you 
are invited to carefully weigh; and in case 
of interest to you, why not pursue the study, 
using the marginal references and a good 
concordance, in the endeavor to find the re- 
maining keys. 

The fact that prophesies were proclaimed, 
that many of them have come to pass with 
marked precision, and that others are un- 
folding in the present day, establishes and 
confirms their Divine inspiration. Most im- 
portant events are prophesied to come to 
pass, in this generation, yea, possibly 
even in the tomorrow; such as should thrill 
our hearts, broaden our vision, and sustain 
us and hearten us against each and all of 
the trials of the hour. We may rest assured 
that right and righteousness will triumph 
at the appointed time as prophesied. 

This booklet is not written for the super- 
ficial, careless, or indifferent reader, or for 
the one whose mind is divided with other 
pressing lines of thought, and who purposes 
to hastily dispose of it. 

Striking as it does at the fundamentals in 
religion and government, the things which 
lie at the base of human affairs, things 
which pertain to life and immortality, it 
should be read consecutively and studiously, 
otherwise its logic will be lost. 

Men are w^ondering what it is all about. 
Has the Great God over all make a mistake? 
Has His plan been defeated by a greater 
than He? Is the life He has given man 
worth living; is God doing the right thing 
by man? What, and how, and w^hen is to 
be the end of it all? 

"And they shall comfort you, when ye see 
their ways and their doings, and ye shall 
know that I have not done, without cause, all 
that I have done, saith the Lord."Ezek.l4:23. 

Is It not important to us that we get a 
clearer conception of God, our Father, as a 



God of infinite goodness, justice, and love, 
and of tender compassion, one who holds 
his children precious in his sight, and who 
is not only able to do so, but who will see 
Lo it that their life efforts are crowned with 
ultimate victory; that in our innermost 
hearts we be fully convinced that His pro- 
vidences are just and right, and that we can 
approve and endorse to the fullest degree 
His acts, notwithstanding the wars, the 
heartaches and the death? 

In the great upheaval that is upon us, men 
and women are being shaken out of the rut; 
the Spirit of God is working in the hearts 
of the people. They are finding themselves. 
They are abandoning their sins and surrend- 
ering to their finer impulses. Monarchies are 
crumbling; reforms are sweeping over the 
lands in great tidal waves that are irresisti- 
ble. The people are learning to discrimin- 
ate more clearly between the right and the 
wrong. Christians all over the world are re- 
sponding with great sacrifice, even unto 
death; martyrs to the cause as truly as were 
the saints of the earlier days of. the faith. 
Christiantiy is not a failure. Right and truth 
and principle are being defended valiantly, 
and are standing forth in shining contrast 
wdth the wrong and the evil. Mankind is 
now under the test, is given one more oppor- 
tunity to elect to stand for the Lord ; one 
more opportunity to awaken from the dark- 
ness and sin into the light, hope and glory 
of immortal life. We are fighting a fight to 
the finish in the cause of the Lord. 

When this vision once takes possession of 
us, we are equipped to engage in the battle 
against the adversary of the Lord, who 
also is our adversary, with power to bear 
fruit; not thirty fold only, not sixty only, 
but an hundred fold. And why limit the fruit- 
age to one hundred fold ; the harvest is ripe, 
the opportunitities are at hand, everything 
is possible with God. Why not try to make 
the goal a thousand fold? Aye, rise up to 
thy privilege, be millionaires in grace and 
make the fruitage a thousand fold. 
Yours in the Faith, 

THE AUTHOR. 



THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



Explanation Chart I. 



A. — From the Creation of Man to the Law of Moses. 

B. — From the Law of Moses to the Beginning of the Christian 
Era. 

C. — From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Millennium. 
This is the most thrilling period of history up to the present 
time. A period in which important events happen. Near the 
end of this period the world war occurs, and thereafter at a 
time not definitely known, Christ comes in the clouds to de- 
liver the Church. (See memo.) 

D, — The Millennium. Christ comes to Earth and reigns one thous- 
and years, as King of the Kings and Rulers of the Earth, 
Satan being chained in the bottomless pit, i. e., in hell, where 
the Beast and the False Prophet and certain followers are 
during such period, 

E. — From the End of the Millennium to the End of the World. 
Christ's reign being concluded, He ascends to heaven; the 
Devil is released for a short time; the people again are sub- 
jected to the test, and under his mischievious power they are 
again led into war, the wicked against the righteous. Where- 
upon, the Lord comes to Earth in final judgment, and Satan, 
the Beast, the False Prophet and the wicked are destroyed in 
the second death. This is the End of Time; the time of the 
Great Harvest; the End of the World. 

F. — The Great White Throne. The first heaven — the air encom- 
passing the earth — and the first earth are passed away, and 
are replaced by a New Heaven and a New Earth, which shall 
have no end. 

G. — Represents the Christian Era. This Era extends from- the 
Beginning of the Christian Era to the End of the World, the 
End of Time. 

H. — The period of the Law. This period extends from the giving 
of the Law to Moses to the End of Time. 

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events which are elucidated by the enlarged Chart 
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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



To the Women 



lu this great emergency that calls for con- 
cert of sympathy and action thy prompt and 
loyal response in such fine spirit, cheerful 
sacrifice, patience, endurance and fidelity 
commands our deepest admiration. Ye are 
the salt of the earth, our pride and our joy. 
We make thee a low bow. 

Men yield to women the place of honor, 
and hold her in tender respect and love. Wo- 
man is of nobler impulse, loftier ideals, 
truer to the call of the needy, quicker to 
forgive, more sympathetic and more patient 
under trial. She is better than man. Men 
expect her to be better than they; to be an 
inspiration to them toward loftier heights. 

Gentle one. Child of the King, Princess 
that ye are, do not, we pray thee, underate 
thy power for good, or the strength of thy 
position, or the great responsibility that is 
thine. It is thine, among other things, to 
mould man over into loftier channels; to 
make him rise to stronger purposes and a 
nobler plane in life. Do not dominate, but 
be gentle. In thy tact and gentleness lies 
thy greatest strength. Be to us the rose 
without the thorn. 

In order to do this ye must hold his con- 



fidence, respect, friendship and love: and 
right here heed a word of warning. Be on 
thy guard against the tempter. Do not play 
with fire. Use -woman's keen perception to 
detect that which is right from that which 
is wrong. Cling steadfast to the one and 
shun the other and keep thy conscience 
clear. Be as refined and modest and true 
as was Marie Corelli's Thelma, and imparr 
these lofty principles to thy children. 

When a woman lays aside her modesty 
she casts aside one of her sweetest, most 
precious charms. 

We call upon our men in France to live 
up to our ideals, and they, as well as the 
men at home, are happy in the confidence 
and love we hold for thee, and we bear wit- 
ness that thou art using thy power and in- 
fluence for the good of mankind and the 
glory of God. 

Be assured we .voice the sentiment of each 
and all in extending, in recognition of thy 
loyalty and sacrifice, our heartfelt sympathy, 
gratitute, confidence and love. 

Sincerely yours, 

THE AUTHOR. 



The Prince of This World- The Unpardonable Sin, 



The Prince of this World, spoken of by 
Christ, it must be recognized, has great 
power for evil. He, "the Dragon, called the 
Devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole 
world" has power to delude, tempt and in- 
fluence us to do wrong, oppositely from 
the promptings of the Holy Spirit within us 
to do right. He is cunning and shrewd, 
and his sophistries seem plausible, and when 
we yield and follow him, as all mankind 
who reach a responsible age do at least to 
some extent, and when we discover his net 
is entrapping us, we must bring our will 
power strongly into play, turn about face, 
and instantly surrender ourselves to the 
Lord, enlist in His service, seek the Pearl 
of great price, and obey. No matter what 
other persons may do, or what they may 
think about it, our path of duty is plain. 

We are given the freedom of will, other- 
wise we would be an irresponsible cypher. 
Our strength, physical and mental, comes 
from God. Jesus said to Pontius Pilate 



"Thou couldest do nothing at all against 
me, except it were given thee from above." 

Now when we yield ourselves up to Satan, 
and use the strength the Lord has given us 
for evil, we worship the Beast, become his 
seed, the seed of the serpent, and are doom- 
to endless death. 

There are a number of beasts in the pro- 
phesies, but there is one that stands out 
distinctly from the others, specially men- 
tioned as the Red Dragon, the Scarlet Col- 
ored Beast — Rev. 12:3 and 17:3, which ap- 
pears to be the prime mover, the backer, 
who, for example, gives his power to the 
arch-fiends, the Kaiser and the Turk. We 
are safe in averring it is he who is the 
promoter of all the isms, Mohammedanism. 
Pantheism, Buddhism, Paganism and what- 
soever. 

The unpardonable sin, what is it? Is it 
murder? No, not if one repents. Before his 
conversion Paul assented to the murder of 
Stephen. Is it theft? No, not if one repents. 



THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM 



The thief on the cross was pardoned. Is it 
adultery? No, not if one repents. He said, 
"Go thou and sin no more." No man or wo- 
man, therefore, should allow any mistake or 
sin, any disgrace, any skeleton, any crime, 
even though followed by court judgment 
and penal service, to spoil his or her life. 

When the penalty is paid the legal debt 
is cancelled. Don't worry over a forgiven 
sin. Rise above it. Do not speak of it; 
bury it. But if possible to do so, we must 
make restitution to any person injured; and 
if we are able to do so and the person or his 
kin cannot be found, then we must make the 
recompense unto the Lord. That is the way 
out of the trouble. Turn over a new leaf 
and make recompense. 

To give ourselves over wholly to the Beast 
and persistently reject and reject and still 
reject the promptings of the Holy Spirit, is 
obviously to commit the unpardonable sin. 
Because one is so persistent in evil doing, as 
are the Kaiser and Mohammed V, the Holy 
Spirit withdraws and Satan is given full 
sway, and he then is confirmed in his de- 
lusion persuading himself h6 is right and 
goes on and on to his destruction. Unhappi- 
ly he needlessly brings great trial and stress 
and sorrow and even death unto others, but 
rest assured the Lord is equal to the emer- 
gency. He has a way of taking care of His 
own and the sheep know their Shepherd and 
are content to abide by His will. This per- 
sistent quenching of the Spirit is the sin 
against the Holy Ghost, the rejection, the 
blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, which Christ 
tells us is unpardonable. 

But when we will to follow God, the Holy 
Spirit abides in us, and we have the peace 
and joy of the Lord, and the consciousness 
that we are the children of God. This, thank 
God, includes those who are regenerated in 
all races, and kindreds, and peoples and ton- 
gues, and it also includes the lowly born, 



parents are only the medium of his birth, 
the soul and the spirit come forth from God; 
and as Jesus redeemed all men, all men and 
women in case they heed the promptings of 
the Spirit and accept Him, become the child 
ren of God. 

Pilate tried to be neutral but failed. He 
said, •'! can find no fault in this just man" 
and he washed his hands; but they prevail- 
ed upon him and he, not having the strength 
of will to stand upon his convictions, yielded 
and gave the decree. History records that 
Pontius Pilate and Claudia, his wife, con- 
scious of his guilt, fied and lived in hiding 
until their death. 

Neither can we be neutral. The record is 
being made up for or against us. The Book 
is being written and the sealing of His child- 
ren is in progress. "Ye are either for me 
or against me," and when we take our stand 
for the Lord it is required that we stand 
steadfast, no halting, or wavering, in peace 
and in war, in life and in death, ever true 
to our Chief. The time of the test is at hand. 
Let us joyfully line up on the Lord's side 
and do our work in such manner as to be 
most effectual. 

It is comforting to know that all who do 
not w^orship the Beast, or his image, or re- 
ceive his mark in their right hand, or receive 
his mark on their forehead, have their 
names written in the Book of Life. 

We must nevertheless never forget that 
notwithstanding Satan has power for 
evil through his control of fallen, degenerate 
men and w^omen, he is not the Prince of this 
world by right, for "the earth is the Lord's 
and the fulness thereof;" and his power, 
therefore, such as it is, is by usurpation, 
fraud and deception; even as is the power 
of all the autocrats and monarchs, w^ho like- 
wise have usurped the power belonging to 
the people, and because he is an usurper, it 
is only temporary and he will be overthrown. 
— (Rev. 20:1-3.) 



for when we come to think of it, the child's 

Will Power. 

A Quotation from Haddock. 

carnates the will whose law is holiness. 
The development and discipline of ones 



"A true cultivation of the will power is 
not possible without reference to highest 
reason" (which Blackstone denominates 
right reason) "or ideas of right. The ideal 
phase of the will is always ethical. Nobility 
of will appears in the query 'What is right?' 
Napoleon exhibits the strong continuous will. 
Washington and Lincoln illustrate the per- 
sistence of moral resolution: and Jesui in- 



V, ill power is of supreme importance in rela- 
tion to life. It is the righteous will which 
accomplishes the lasting victories for the 
good of mankind. 

The use of will power regardless of others 
Interest — riding rough shod over everything 
in its path — heads one for a precipice." 



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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



THE KAISER AND THE TURK. 
Prophecies of the Bible. 



Are not the Prophecies being fulfiiled? Is 
not the Kaiser the "Little Horn" spoken of 
by Daniel, "who shall speak marvelous 
things with a loud voice, and shall magnify 
himself above every god, and in his estate 
shall honor the god of forces;" as well as 
one of the Beasts of Revelation, who decrees 
that none shall buy or sell except they re- 
ceive his mark; and is not Mohammed and 



succeeding Caliphs and Sultans the "False 
Prophet" the "Anti-Christ, who denieth the 
Christ," and is not the Turkish Empire one 
of the Beasts of Revelation, "the number of 
whose name is 666." 

Assuming this to be true let us study the 
prophecies in the light of the happenings 
of the day. 



CHAPTER I. 
The United States is a Christian Nation. 
The Dominant Faith is the Protestant Faith. 



Mar. 13:14. — Jesus said "But when ye see 
the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by 
Daniel, the prophet, standing where it ought 
not: (let him that readeth understand.") 

Dan, 12:9-10. — "And he said, Go thy way, 
Daniel, for the words are closed up and seal- 
ed to the time of the end. Many shall be 
purified and made white, and tried; but 
the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of 
the wicked shall understand; but the wise 
shall understand." 

"As many as I love I rebuke and chasten: 
Be zealous therefore and repent? 

"Fear none of those things which thou 
Shalt suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast 
some of you into prison that ye may be 
tried. 

"For in those days shall be affliction, such 
as was not from the beginning of creation 
which God created unto this time, neither 
shall be." 

That is, it shall not be followed by a re- 
petition thereof: even as the promise that 
the world should not again be destroyed by 
flood has been made good. 

"And except that the Lord had shortened 
those days, no flesh should be saved; but for 
the elect's sake, whom He hath chosen. He 
hath shortened those days." 
***** 

The words of prophecy are clothed in 
mystery. Symbols are used and it is only 
when the interpretation is given, which, as 
a rule, contains the key, and the key found 
and applied that the mystery is revealed, 
and the prophecy comprehended. 



One of the symbols is "Beast," mterpreted 
by the angel as "king," which when analyz-" 
ed will be found to relate to an autocrat or 
a monarch, a supreme ruler, a despot or in 
its broader sense to an autocracy or monar- 
chy, or despotism, wherein the ruler as- 
sumes for himself absolute power, such for 
instance, as the power to declare or ter- 
minate war, and consequently divests his 
subjects of their liberties, in contradistinc- 
tion of the liberties that are assured to the 
citizens of a Republic or a Democracy. It 
is heartening to know that the Prophecies 
unite in declaring that their dominion shall 
be taken away.* 

Even though a man be an emperor, he 
may be filled with pride, conceit, greed, 
covetousness and lust for power, hence a 
degenerate. Such a man is a "beast," an 
offense to God and man, and at the great 
judgment day, together with Satan and his 
followers, according to the Scriptures, must 
suffer for a period and then be overtaken 
with the "second death," oblivion. 

It may clarify the atmosphere to say that 
the foregoing presupposes that the souls of 
all men are not endowed with immortality. 
That immortality, i. e., a never ending ex- 
istence, is a gift of God, granted only to a 
portion of the human family. If all were 
immortal it would follow^ that the righteous 
live in endless joy and the wicked in endless 
torment, whereas at the final judgment upon 
the wicked they are destroyed in the second 
death. In the succeeding chapters a dis- 
cussion of Christianity is interwoven in 



♦Certain writers have said a Beast throughout the Bible is used to represent a government. This 
is an error. Such a writer lacks the power of discrimination. This interpretation would leave all 
forms of government open to condemnation. A beast is used to represent only a certain form of 
government, a Depotism, an Autocracy. The same writers have also said that the Dragon is the 
symbol which the Lord is pleased to use to represent civil power. This likewise is an error. It 
applies to Satan who gives to certain autocratic rulers "his power, and his seat and great authority." 



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order to draw the striking contrast between 
this genuine religion, and that of one of the 
chief counterfeits, the Turk. 

Get clear upon the proposition, please. 
The United States is a Christian Nation. 
Not only is it such, but the dominant Chris- 
tian faith is the Protestant faith. The same 
is true of all English speaking countries. 

Our Presidents with but one exception, he 
a Unitarian, have all been Protestant Christ- 
ians. No Roman Catholic has ever occupied 
the Presidential chair. 

While the Constitution of the United 
States, in order to safeguard religious liber- 
ty for all time, deprives Congress of the 
power to make an established church, with- 
out dissent, the United States Supreme 
Court has held that we are a Christian na- 
tion. A quotation is made therein from a 
decision of the late Chief Justice Kent of 
the Supreme Court of New York, in which 
he said "Mohammed was an imposter."* 

Our laws and jurisprudence, our courts of 
equity, are all based upon the principles of 
the Christian religion. The Christian era 
is our era. "In the year of our Lord" ap- 
pears in all Government and State patents 
and documents whatsoever. A. D. in all our 
wills, deeds and contracts. The oath of 
office; the oaths in our open Courts "So help 
me God" is uniformly used. Our coins have 
the imprint "In God we Trust." The Christ- 
ian Sunday is our day of rest and worship. 

The birth of our nation was the Declara- 
tion of Independence, in the year of our 
Lord 1776. 1776 Anno Domini was therefore 
a great year for America, and as time will 
prove, a great year for all the peoples of 
the earth; the dawn of a new age. 

We joyfully sing: 

"Our Father's God to Thee, 

Author of Liberty 

To Thee we sing. 

Long may our land be bright 

With freedom's holy light 

Protect us by Thy might 

GREAT GOD OUR KING." 

In the United States, furthermore, there 
is one husband and one wife, and the wife, 
and mother holds a place of respect, honor 
and love in the home, and in her community. 
Polygamy is prohibited by the laws of the 
Nation and of every State. In this we have 
followed the injunction of Christ. "From 



the beginning of the creation God made 
them male and female, and they twain shall 
be one flesh, so then they are no more twain, 
but one flesh." 

This establishes the ideal home where 
there are family ties most sacred. Husband 
and wife; father and mother, brothers and 
sisters, grand parents and grand children, 
uncles, aunts and cousins, all in their day 
born of lawful wedlock. Such are the homes 
where sunshine, flowers, music, faith, con- 
fidence and love abound; the Christian 
homes. 

On October 4th, 1917, the Congress 
unanimously by concurrent resolution re- 
quested the President to set apart a day of 
prayer for the blessing of the Lord upon our 
own and allied nations, in the battle for the 
cause of liberty and humanity, and the Pre- 
sident by proclamation fixed Sunday, Octo 
ber 28th as the day, and the people all over 
the land met in their respective places of 
worship, and concurrently offered up their 
prayers and supplication unto God for His 
blessing and sustenance in their battle for 
liberty and truth. 

The Federal Council of the Churches of 
Christ, 1917 year book, gives the census es- 
timate as follows; being derived from the 
annual year books published by the several 
denominations: 

Protestant Christian Communicants 

24,692,967 

Roman Catholic 14,330,370 



39,023,337 
The foregoing number in the Protestant 
column indicates the actual enrollment of 
members. Whereas that in the Catholic is 
uncertain in that it reports its "population" 
which is understood to include the uncon- 
firmed children of families where either one 
or both parents are Catholic, and the child- 
ren in their schools, and the Council has de- 
ducted 15 per cent from the total reported 
on account thereof. 

The contingents of the Protestant faith, 
therefore, are very large, and probably ex- 
ceed the number enrolled, while the Catho- 
lic contingents are probably very much less 
in ratio to their membership. 

To a striking degree the increase in mem- 
bership from year to year of the Protestant 



*See opinion by Mr. Justice Brewer, in case of Tiie Holy Trinity vs. The United States, reported 
in Vol. 143. at page 457, U. S. Reports. Incidentally it may be mentioned Justice Brewer's father 
was a Protestant Minister. 



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Churches is from our native born population, 
while that of the Catholic is from the for- 
eign born; imported. 
All other denominations: 
Jewish Congregations 

(heads of families 143,000 

Unitarians 71,110 

Latter Day Saints 415,000 

Spiritualists 200,000 

Christian Sciencists* ....85,096 

Theosophical Society 5,861 

♦Latest report rendered to the Council was iu 



Buddhists 3,165 

Other Societies. 70,140 



993.372 



We are proud to have had as our Presi- 
dents so many strikingly strong Christian 
men, among whom are George Washington, 
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theo- 
dore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. 



19U() 



CHAPTER II. 
The Mandate to a King. The Law of God, 



Here is the mandate of the Lord to a king. 
Deu. 17:16.— "But he (the king) shall not 
multiply horses to himself," (the Czar had 
800 pedigreed horses with most elaborate 
stalls, and an expensive tablet in front of 
each showing his pedigree, for the use of 
himself and the guards and officers of his 
palaces, and incidentally the grooms slept 
on the same straw that the horses did. The 
Czar had only twenty palaces, just twenty; 
that was all.) 

17 —"Neither shall he multiply wives to 
himself that his heart turn not away." (Has 
the Turk with his harem and Garden of De- 
light obeyed this injunction?) "Neither shall 
he greatly multiply to himself silver and 
gold." It is said the Kaiser's personal for- 
tune was $60,000,000. at the beginning of the 
war, a portion of which is reported to be in- 
vested in stock of the Krupps works; and 
that he awards himself an annual income of 
$3,000,000. from the revenues collected or 
forty times the income awarded the Presi- 
dent of the United States. Is he worth it? 
18. — "And it shall be when he sitteth upon 
the throne of his kingdom, that he shall 
write him a copy of this law in a book. 19. 
and it shall be with him, and he shall read 
therein all the days of his life; that he may 
learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all 
the words of the law and these statutes, to 
do them." 



20. — "That his heart be not lifted up above 
his brethren, and that he turn not aside from 
the commandment, to the right hand or to 
the left." 

And what is this law? 

Deu. 11: 13. — "I command you this day to 
love the Lord your God and serve him with 
all your heart and with all your soul." 

Lev.l9:18.— "Thou shalt love thy neighbor 
as thyself." 

Deu. 5: 7-9. — "Thou shalt have no other 
gods before me — shalt not make any graven 
image— Shalt not bow down thy self to them 
nor serve them." 

11 — "Thou shalt not take the name of the 
Lord thy God in vain." 

12. — "Keep the Sabbath day and sanctify 
it as the Lord thy God hath commanded 
thee; — thou shalt not work on the Sabbath 
day." 

It.— "Honor thy father and thy mother." 

17. — "Thou Shalt not kill." 

This means to kill aggressively ; to com- 
mit murder. Elsewhere he that killeth in 
self-defense is held guiltless. 

Lev. 24:17 — "He that killeth a man shall 
surely be put to death." Gen. 9:6. — "Whoso 
sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his 
blood be shed." "His blood shall be upon 
his own head." Ex. 22:2. — If a thief be found 
breaking up and be smitten that he die, 
there shall be no blood shed for him." 



A great many persons seem to be bewild- 
ered over the words of Christ "Ye have 
heard it hath been said an eye for an eye 
and a tooth for a tooth, but I say unto you 
render not evil for evil. If a man smite 
thee on one cheek turn to him the other 



also." 

They seem to think that this is the 
enunciation of an entirely new law, that it 
abrogates the law as given by Moses, or if it 
does not abrogate it, then it must be in con- 
flict with it. Rather is it not the fuller in- 



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13 



terpretation of the law? Let us see if this 
will not bear elucidation that may remove 
the fog. It does not abrogate the law nor is 
it in conflict with it. 

In the same discourse just before utter- 
ing these words Christ said "I am not come 
to destroy the law and the prophets but to 
fulfill. For, verily, I say unto you, till earth 
and heaven pass, one jot or one tittle shall 
in no wise pass from the law till all be ful- 
filled." 

Therefore, the meaning of the foregoing 
must be looked for in the light of the assur- 
ance that the law of God stands. 

Very well, then what are we to infer? 
Elsewhere we read "a soft answer turneth 
away wrath." We all know this is true in 
life. If we can but hold our temper in the 
face of sharp words we instantly disarm the 
party and subdue him, even more effectually 
than is possible in any other way. When a 
man is treated as though he were a gentle- 
man, or a woman as though she were a lady, 
gentle treatment will be returned. Not al- 
ways so, to be sure, but this will be so, as 
a rule. 

Now the above precept of Christ is in the 
same trend, but the object is to be attained 
by means of an act instead of by word. 

Paul makes reference to this in his appeal 
to "Brethren in the Church," as though one 
brother had given provocation to another, 
and the latter had exercised his legal right 
to appeal to the Court. Paul advises they 
adjust their differences, as brothers, within 
themselves. 

So. likewise, as in the case of the soft an- 
sw|r, if one in a moment of heat strikes 
ail other, or slaps him in the face, which, 
true, is a grievous insult, but not with inur- 
derous intent, and if the latter can be patient 
and turn the other cheek, and perhaps smile 
while doing it, probably in one hundred 
cases out of a hundred, it will bring the par- 
ty back to reason and the issue can be ami- 
cably settled. It points out the best method 
of settling all the small provocations In life. 

Another injunction of Christ in the same 
trend is that we return good for evil. This 
is a hard thing to do. It means that we 
submerge ourselves otit of sight arid culti- 
vate the spirit not only of self-control but 
to do good to another without expecting any 
favors in return. When a person injures us 
and repents and asks forgiveness, we must, 
of course, extend pardon; but when we do 



such a one a kindness after he has done us 
injury, it naturally follows that in the very 
act we have forgiven him, even before the 
asking. 

Let us illustrate: assuming the Mosaic 
Law is in vogue, A strikes B, causing the 
loss of a tooth. A court is presided over 
yonder. B has the legal right to lay his 
case before the court and ask that a penalty 
of the loss of a tooth be inflicted on A. When 
it is put up to the Judge he must render 
judgement in a'ccordance with law, and by 
his judgement justice will have been met. 

But even under the Mosaic Law, B is pri- 
vileged to forgive A. The law does not make 
it compulsory upon B to enter complaint in 
his own behalf. Without a complaint the 
court does not act. Hence, if B waives his 
legal right of justice, it is adjusted by the 
grace of B, the provocation is then forgiven 
and forgotton, and B even turns about and 
does a kindness to A and thereby wins his 
respect 'and love ; thenceforth^, they are 
V armer friends than ever before. 

Has the law of God been abrogated? Cer- 
tainly not : it still stands. 

In like manner it is within the province 
of a husband to forgive an unfaithful wife, 
and of a wife to forgive an unfaithful hus- 
band; and in cases where publicity and scan- 
dal might involve children or other innocent 
persons, their interests may be a determin- 
ing factor to lead the injured party to dis- 
creetly endure and forgive, besides this 
may be the means of saving the erring one. 
But in case a woman finds her husband is 
an unrepentant beast, or if a man finds he 
has married an incorrigible cat, even the 
law of Christ prescribes a remedy. 

Our love for our enemies has its limita- 
tions in justice even as the love of God has 
its limitations for sinful men. ■ 

We are not to be soft. We are not to for- 
give such reptiles as the Kaiser and the 
Turk, for it is inconsistent with the princi- 
ples of logic, that we should be expected to 
forgive those whom the Holy Spirit rejects 
and upon whom, God, in His righteous wrath 
visits vengeance and condemnation. 

Christ said furthermore, "Be ye harmless 
as doves." To do harm is to do violence; to 
do injury; to trespass. W^e must not do in- 
jury to others any more than a dove will do 
so. But this does not excuse us from defend- 
ing ourselves and others when another 
transgresses even though he gets hurt in 



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the act. 

The whole trend is to teach us to he more 
tolerant with one another; to remove the 
mote first from our own eye, a gentle re- 
minder that we all have faults, and to awak- 
en us to a higher plane of thought and ac- 
tion, and an appeal to us to rise above our 
petty selves and cultivate noble impulses to 
do good to all about us for the mere pur- 
pose of doing good, of rendering service and 
contributing to the happiness of others. 
This leads to nobility of character; treating 
those about us with tender consideration 
and gentleness, rising above holding little 
grudges and harboring dislikes over trifling 
faults and matters, forgetting and forever 
burying hatreds and discords and feuds, all 
of which illumines the beauty and character 
of the Christian faith within us. 

And. beloved, remember, aye remember, 
that whereas He gave us the suggestions He 
confirmed it all by giving himself a ransom, 
for us. Furthermore, He taught us to say 
"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our 
debtors," and then He informs us that God 
will make the forgiveness we extend to 
others the measure of His forgiveness to us. 

Nevertheless, the dominant characteristic 
of the Christian is not meekness but 
strength. Strength, undaunted courage, 
power, impelling strength. 

Washington, Lincoln and Wilson furnish 
examples of men under self-control, men 
with strong dynamic wills but under fine 
discipline. This is the lesson Christ taught 
us in the above. 

But, pray, do not confuse the issues. Do 
not allow yourself for a moment to be per- 
suaded that the rule of meekness is to bear 
upon the case where a highwayman prowls 
around and enters your house at night with 
intent to murder you and your wife, rape 
your daughter and steal your goods. You 
are a stupid, cowardly cur if you do not re- 
sist him with force. 

Here it is: "If a man comes presumptous- 
ly upon his neighbor to slay him with guile. 



thou Shalt take him that he may die." Ex. 
21: 14. "Defend the poor and the father- 
less." Ps. 82:3. "Think not that I am come 
to send peace on earth: I am not come to 
send peace but a sword." Mat. 10:34. 

This is in direct harmony with the law, 
i. e.. He came to overcome evil, by peace, 
in case peace measures will work, otherwise 
by war. 

We must with- great patience appeal and 
plead and endure in the endeavor to win 
one over ; but when an incorrigible looms up 
who will not respond to gentle treatment, 
then employ force, fight, make war, and in 
fighting, fight to a finish; fight till sin Is 
overcome." 

Away with the erroneous idea that the 
Church is not to use physical force, and that 
its only weapon is to be passive endurance 
and loyalty to God. It was, true, imperative 
that Christ should not use His power in re- 
sistence, in order that He might redeem: man 
and overcome Satan and Death by Himself 
passing through death, but now that the 
sacrifice has been made, we must under- 
stand that the Gospel is within the Law and 
act accordingly. 

When Christ comes to earth to reign as 
"King of Kings and Lord of Lords," as the 
Sovereign of the kings and rulers of the 
earth, during the Millennium, as He will. He 
will reign in righteousness but "He will 
reign with a rod of iron," i. e., the law will 
be exacted. A murderer will be quickly 
stoned to death; a man and woman taken in 
adultery will both pay the death penalty; 
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; right- 
eous judges will preside; property rights 
will not be so precious but that restitution 
and reparation will be required. The law 
will be in vogue "till all be fulfilled." But 
bear in mind the penalties will fall upon 
the law breakers only, not upon the child- 
ren of God. The penalty of the law does 
not fall upon the innocent now, except where 
justice miscarries, neither will it then. (See 
letter H, Chart 1, the period of the law.) 



Deu. 5: 18. — "Thou shalt not commit ad- 
ultery." 19. — "Neither shalt thou steal." 
20. — "Thou shalt not bear false witness." 
21. — "Thou Shalt not desire thy neighbor's 
wife, neither shalt thou covet anything that 
is thy neighor's," 

Lev. 25:17.— "Ye shalt not therefore op- 



press one another." "Thou shalt not oppress 
the stranger." 

Deu. 25: 13-16. — "Thou shalt not have di- 
vers weights, a great and small; or divers 
measures, a great and small, but thou shalt 
have a perfect and a just weight, and a per- 
fect and a just measure; for all that do such 



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15 



things and all that do unrighteousness, are 
an abomination unto the Lord." 

Ex. 23:8.— "Thou shalt take no gift (bribe) 
for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth 
the words of the righteous." 
Lev. 24: 21. — "He that killeth a beast" (be- 
longing to another) "shall restore it." 22. — 
"Ye shall have one manner of law as well 
for Ihe stranger as for one of thine own 
country." 

Lev. 6: 4. — "Then it shall be because he 
hath sinned and is guilty, he shall restore 
that which was delivered to him to keep, or 
the thing which he hath deceitfully gotton or 
the lost thing which he found; or that about 
which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even 
restore it in the principal and shall add the 
fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him 
to whom it appertaineth." 

Lev. 19: 13. — "The wages of him that is 
hired" (if he be in need) "shall not abide 
with thee until the morning." 

Deu. 24:15. — "Lest he cry against thee un- 
to the Lord, and it be sin unto thee." 

Lev. 19:30. — "Ye shall reverence my 
sanctutary. I am the Lord." 

"Do ye also to men as ye would that they 
should do unto you." 

This is the positive verb. Reach out and 
do good to your fellowmen. 

* * * * 

An Associated Press dispatch says: "After 
a patriotic sermon by the pastor," (on Flag 
Day) "Colonial Roosevelt entered the pulpit 
and preached a vigorous sermon along the 
lines of the doctrine of the Church. He de- 
clared the great law of Christianity is the 
law of service." 

Teddy is faithful and true, as true as 
Woodrow. Both are faithful and true. 

* * * * 

"If ye love me keep my commandments." 
We are required to repent of our sins and 
to confess unto them unto the Lord, (not un- 
to man) and to make restitution to man 
when it is possible for us to do so. If we 
are able to make restitution and the man or 
his kinsman cannot be found, then (Num, 
5: 8.) "Let the recompense be made unto to 
Lord." 

The Lord here gives a precept, that ob- 
viously applies to any of the rich who may 
have acquired their wealth by any unlawful 
or corrupt means, such as the giving or tak- 
ing of rebates, combinations in foods, steel, 
oils or other products, in speculative gamb- 



ling in grains and stocks, not earned; ex- 
tortionate rates of interest or commission 
or for services rendered; or in exacting 
labor from men, women and children op- 
pressively, such as unreasonable hours and 
days and low wages, or in liquor traffic, or 
wrong doing whatsoever. 

The "hire of a whore" is so grossly abom- 
inable that it is proclaimed tainted and must 
not be turned to the Lord's treasury; but 
may we not infer when any of us acquire 
money in these other ways, in many cases 
taken by persons who are accustomed to 
such practices through their environments, 
and possibly not fully awakened to their 
own wrong doing: when we do awaken and 
repent, it is required we shall make restora- 
tion to the injured persons, if possible, 
otherwise unto the Lord. 

The millionaire who is truly converted, 
and who learns the art of doing it has every 
opportunity as well as the ability to do great 
good, and such work will bring him vastly 
more joy and peace than the mere possess- 
ion of his wealth can do. It is a strange 
fact, however, that many such, whose minds 
have been devoted to acquiring wealth, not 
being in touch with the masses, are embar- 
rassed when it comes to giving it away. 

A man called on a minister and gave him 
a dollar bill, saying "you can no doubt find 
a place for it." The minister replied saying, 
"this morning a nurse who is caring for 
orphan children appealed to me to assist 
in raising money to provide milk for the 
babies, the supply being inadequate. Your 
dollar, brother, may save a baby's life." 

Mai. 3:5. — "I will be a swift witness 
against adulterers, and against false swear- 
ers and against those that oppress the hire- 
ling in his wages, the widow, and the father- 
less, and that turn the stranger from his 
right, saith the Lord." 

Lev. 27: 30.— "And all the tithes" (one 
tenth part) "of the land, whether of the seed 
of the land or of the fruits of the tree, is 
the Lord's; it is holy unto the Lord. 

Mai. 3: 8-9. — "Ye are cursed with a curse 
for ye have robbed me in tithes and in 
offerings." 10. — "Bring ye all the tithes in- 
to the storehouse, and prove me, now here- 
with, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not 
open the windows of heaven, and pour you 
out a blessing, that there shall not be room 
enough to receive it." 11. — "And I will re- 
buke the devourer for your sakes, and he 



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shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, 
neither shall your vine cast her fruit before 
the time in the field, saith the Lord of 
hosts." 

Here the Lord challenges us to believe in, 
trust in and obey Him. Here He promises 
temporal blessings; elsewhere bounteous 
spiritual blessings are promised also. 

The experience of a certain man, an ac- 
tual occurrence in life is given. He started 
in faithfully giving the tenth and was great- 
ly prospered. He then quit saying "why my 
income is so great I can't afford to do it." 

It is interesting to note that Christ gave 
his approval to the giving of the one tenth, 
viz: 

Matt. 23: 23. — "Woe unto you, Scribes and 
Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye pay the tithes 
of mint and anise and cummin, and have 
omitted the weightier matters of the law, 
judgement, mercy and faith. These (the 
giving of tithes) ought ye to have done and 
not to have left the others undone." 

Jesus also said we should give of such 
things as we have. All cannot give money, 
some can give time. But we must also re- 
cognize that all cannot give in temporal 
matters, and they like the Levites are the 
just recipients from others who do give. A 
kind act, a cup of water, a word of good 
cheer, of encouragement, smiles, sunshine 
and flowers, anything to contribute to the 
happiness of others. The Boy Scouts and 
Girl Scouts have caught the inspiration of it. 

The rich who have the love of God in their 
hearts will find joy in giving vastly more 
than one-tenth. To accumulate and hoard 
in greed is a serious offense. "Thou fool, 
tonight thy soul shall be required of thee 
then whose shall all these things be?' 

Deu. 13: 1-3. — "If there arise among you a 
prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth 
thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or 
the wonder come to pass, saying, 'Let us go 
after other gods,' which thou hast not 
known, and Met us serve them:' Thou shalt 
not harken unto the words of that prophet, 
or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord 
your God proveth you, to know whether ye 
love the Lord your God with all your heart 
and with all your soul." 



Had the Kaiser, Emperor Francis Joseph, 
and the Turk respected the law of God, 
there would be no war on the earth today. 
Theirs is the crime of the centuries. If, in- 
stead of this abominable war, with its de- 
struction, death, sin, waste, hunger and de- 
solation, the rulers and the people through- 
out the world had given liberally unto the 
Lord for the spread of the Law and the Gos- 
pel, and for the less fortunate, and if instead 
of the oppression by the rich and the waste 
in strong drink, they had dealt fairly with 
the people and had turned their hearts to 
benevolence, want and hunger would have 
been banished from the earth, and, to a far 
greater degree than exists today, peace and 
good will would prevail. The happy results 
growing out of the consideration extended 
by Henry Ford to his employees confirms 
this view. 

The fault, however, is not entirely on the 
part of the employer. The employee also 
has a responsibility before God for right 
doing, temperate demeanor and faithful 
w^ork, and he should not allow his mind to 
be poisoned and controlled by prejudice, 
when he is being fairly treated. Prejudice 
is a most dangerous foe to the man himself. 
It turns upon him, makes him suspicious 
and sour and ugly, thoroughly unhappy, and 
disqualifies him for performing his part as 
a good citizen. 

Here is an illustration. A man is select- 
ed to serve as a juror. He takes an oath to 
render his verdict in accordance with the 
law and the testimony in the case, without 
fear or favor. 

He is filled with prejudice against one of 
the litigants, who perhaps may be an em- 
ployer of other men, and allows his prejudice 
to prevent him from making a candid review 
and to influence his decision unfavorable to 
such employer, instead of being governed 
by right reason. The result is he not only 
does injustice to the party, but he violates 
his oath and forfeits his manhood, his honor 
and his self-respect. 

Is it not a time when all the world should 
be sobered and humble themselves in repen- 
tance before God? 



CHAPTER III. 
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream. The Four World Monarchies. 

Dan. 2: 27. "Daniel answered in the pres- 



ence of the king and said, — there is a God 



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17 



in heaven that revealeth secrets, and mak- 
oth known to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, 
what shall be In the latter days. Thy dreams 
and the visions of thy head are these." 

29.— "As for thee, O King, thy thoughts 
came into thy mind upon thy bed, what 

should come to pass hereafter." 31 "Thou, 

O King, sawest and beheld a great image. 
This great image, whose brightness was ex- 
cellent, stood before thee; and the form 
thereof was terrible." 32. — "The image's 
head was of fine gold, his breast and his 
arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of 
brass. 33. — his legs of iron, his feet part of 
iron and part of clay." 34. — "Thou sawest 
till that a stone was cut out without hands, 
which smote the image upon the feet that 
were of iron and clay, and break them in 
pieces. 25. — Then was the Iron, the clay, 
the silver, and the gold broken to pieces to- 
gether, and became like the chaff of the 
summer threshing floors; and the wind car- 
ried them away that no place was found for 
them; and the stone that smote the image 
became a great mountain and filled the 
whole earth." 

36. — "This is your dream: We will now 
tell the interpretation thereof before the 
king." 37.— "Thou,^ O King, art a king of 
kings; for the God of heaven hath given 
thee a kingdom, power and strength and 
glory." 38.— "And wheresoever the children 
of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the 
fowls of heaven hath he given unto thy 
hand, and hath made thee ruler over them 
all." 

"Thou art thfs head of Gold." 
Evidently Nebuchadnezzar, king of Baby- 
lonia, now Mesopotamia, "the Glorious 
land;" was an autocrat. His authority was 
absolute. 

•^9- — "And after thee shall rise another 
kingdom, inferior to thee;" (the Media-Per- 
sia Kingdom, also an autocracy) "and an- 
other third kingdom of brass, which shall 
bear rule over the earth." (Grecia, Alexan- 
der the Great, also an autocrat.) 40.— "And 
the fourth kingdom," (the Roman Empire, 
ruled by such autocrats as Agustus Caesar, 
Nero, et al.) "shall be strong as iron; foras- 
much as iron breaketh in pieces and sub- 
dueth all things ; and as iron that breaketh. 
all these shall it break in pieces and bruise." 
41— "And whereas thou sawest the feet 

*The fulfillment of this prophecy in its entirety 
comes to reign for a thousand years. Meantime 
that exist. 



and the" (ten) "toes, part of potter's clay 
and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divi- 
ded" (elsewhere mentioned as divided into 
ten kingdoms,) "there shall be in it of the 
strength of iron, for as much as thou sawest 
the iron mixed with miry clay." 42.^"And 
; s the toes and the feet were part of iron 
and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be 
partly strong and partly broken. 43.— "And 
whereas thou sawest iron mixed with the 
miry clay they shall mingle themselves with 
the seed of men; but they shall not cleave 
one to another, even as iron is not mixed 
with clay." 44. — "And in the days of these 
kings" (or kingdoms) "shall the God of Hea- 
ven set up a kingdom which shall never be 
destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left 
to other people, but it shall break in pieces 
a-^d consume al! these kingdoms, (thesr 
autocracies) "and it shall stand forever." 

45.— "Forasmuch as thou sawest that the 
stone was cut out of the mountain without 
hands," (Christ the Lord,) "and that it 
break in pieces the iron, the brass, 
the clay, the silver and the gold; the great 
God hath made known to the king what 
shall come to pass hereafter; and the dream 
is certain and the interpretation thereof 
sure." 

* *• * * 

The four kingdoms therefore were: 
The Babylonian Empire, the Lion; 
The Media-Persian Empire, the Bear; 
The Grecian Empire, the Leopard, and 
The Great Roman Empire,the Dragon. 

But these are to be overthrown. 

* * * * 

Isa. 2: 2. — "And it shall come to pass in 
the last days, — 3 — many people shall go and 
say. come ye, and let us go up to the mount- 
ain of the Lord, to the house of the God of 
Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and 
v.e will walk in his paths; for out of Zion 
shall go forth the law. and the word of tho 
Lord from Jerusalem. 

Did not the law heretofore quoted come 
forth from Zion and the word of the Lord 
from Jerusalem? 

4. — "And he shall judge among the na- 
tions, and shall rebuke many people; and 
they shall beat their swords into plow 
shares, and their spears into pruning hooks; 
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, 
neither shall they learn war any more.* 

may not come until the millennium when Christ 
it is the privilege of man to correct many evils 



IS 



THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



The Kaiser 

1.— "In the first year of Belshaz 
of Babylon, the son and sue 



CHAPTER IV. 
Daniers First Vision. 
His Dominion Shall be Taken Away 



Dan. 7: 
zar, king 

cessor of Nebuchadnezzar,) Daniel had a 
dream and visions of his head upon his bed; 
then he wrote the dream and told the sum 
of the matters. 2.— Daniel spake and said, 
I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, 
the four winds of heaven strove upon the 
great sea; 3. — and four great beasts came 
up from the sea, (from among the people) 
diverse one from another." 

These four, it will be seen by the inter- 
pretation, are the same four great monarch- 
ies revealed in the preceding. 

4, — "The first was like a lion, and had 
eagle's wings. (An eagle has two wings.) 
I beheld till the wings thereof were pluck- 
ed, and it was lifted up from the earth, and 
made stand upon the feet as a man, and a 
man's heart was given to it." (Babylonia, 
including Assyria.) 

5. — "And behold another beast, a second, 
like to a bear, and it raised itself on one 
side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of 
it between the teeth of" it ; and they said un- 
to it, 'Arise, devour much flesh.' " (Media- 
Persia, w^hich included Assyria, the three 
ribs.) 6. — "After this, I beheld, and lo, an- 
other, like a leopard, which had upon the 
back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast 
had also four heads, and dominion was given 
to it."=^= (Grecia, divided after the death of 
Alexander the Great, into four heads.) 

7. — After this I saw in the night visions, 
and behold, a fourth beast," (the Roman Em- 
pire) "dreadful ad terrible, and strong ex- 
ceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it 
devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped 
the residue with the feet of it; and it was 
diverse from all the beasts that were before 
it; and it had ten horns." (Ten kings or 
kingdoms.) 

8. — "I considered the horns, and, behold, 
there came up among them another little 
horn, (the Kaiser,) before whom there 
were three of the first horns, (Belgium 
Serbia and Roumania) plucked up by the 
roots; and, behold, in this horn were eyes 
like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speak- 



ing with great things." 9.— "I beheld till the 
Ancient of days (God) did sit, whose gar- 
ment w^as white as snow, and the hair of his 
head like the pure wool; his throne was like 
the fiery flame, and his wheels as the burn- 
ing fire." (Glorified with light.) 

"A fiery stream issued and came forth 
from before him; thousand thousands minis- 
tered unto him, and ten thousand times ten 
thousand stood before him; the judgement 
was set and the books were opened." 

11 — "I beheld then because of the voice 
of the great words w^hich the (little) horn 
spake; I beheld till the beast (the autocra- 
cy) was slain and his body destroyed, and 
given to the burning fiames." (Militarism, 
which we may call the body or the effective 
support of autocracy, overthrown.) 

12. — "As concerning the rest of the beasts, 
(the autocracies) they had their dominion 
taken away; yet their lives were prolonged 
for a season and time." 13.— "I saw in the 
night visions, and, behold, one like unto the 
Son of Man (Christ) come with the clouds 
of heaven,** and come to the Ancient of 
days, and they brought him near before him " 
14. — "And there was given him dominion. 
and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, 
nations, and languages, should serve him, 
his dominion is an everlasting dominion, 
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom 
that which shall not be destroyed."*** 

15. — I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit in 
the midst of my body, and the vision of my 
head troubled me." 16.— "I came near unto 
one of them that stood by, and asked him 
the truth of all this. So he told me, and 
made me know the interpretation of the 
things." 17. — "These great beasts, which are 
four, are four kings, (let us say rather four 
kingdoms or four autocracies, as is clearly 
indicated in the subsequent verses, the word 
kings being a poor translation) which shall 
arise out of the earth." 

18.— "But the saints of the Most High 
shall take the kingdom and possess the king- 
dom forever, even for ever and ever." (The 
people shall rule under Christ their Sover- 
eign.) 19. — "Then I would know the truth 



♦Webster's dictionary defines dominion «« ohsolute authoritu. 
•*The Coming of Christ in the Clouds for His Church. 
***The Coming of Christ to reigH. 



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19 



of the fourth beast, (the Roman Empire) 
which was diverse from all the others, ex- 
ceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, 
and his nails of brass; which devoured, 
brake in pieces, and stamped the residue 
with his feet." 20. — "And of the ten horns 
that were in his head, and of the other (the 
Kaiser) which came up, and before whom 
three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, 
(intelligence) and a mouth that spake very 
great things, whose look was more stout 
than his fellows." 21. — "I beheld and the 
same horn made war with the saints, and 
prevailed against them." 

Is it not true, does not this fit the case of 
the Kaiser? 

22. — "Until the Ancient of days came, and 
judgement was given to the saints of the 
Most High; and the time came that the 
saints possessed the kingdom." 23. — "Thus 
he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth 
kingdom, (unquestionably the Roman Em- 
pire) upon earth, which shall devour the 
whole earth, and shall tread it down, and 
brake it to pieces." 24. — ^And the ten horns 
out of this kingdom are ten kings (king- 
doms) that shall rise: and another shall rise 
after them, and he shall be diverse from the 
first, and he (the Kaiser) shall subdue three 
kings." 25. — "And he shall speak great 
words against the Most High." 

"^he Kaiser from the outset has claimed 
the 3ole credit for all that Germany has 
done. He has said: 

"Only one is Master in the Empire, and I 
am that one. I represent Monarchy by the 
grace of God. You mttSt all have one will, 
and that is My will ; there is only one law, 
and that is My law. If I order you to shoot 
down your own relatives, brothers, yea, even 
your parents, you must obey without mur- 
muring." (Speech to Potsdam recruits.) 

"The spirits of God has descended upon Me 
because I am the German Emperor. I am 
the instrument of the Most High. I am his 
sword, His representative on earth. Woe 
and death to those who oppose My will! 
Death to the ififidel who denies My mission! 
Let all the enemies of the German nation 
perish! God demands their . destruction. 
God, who by my mouth, summons you to 
carry out His decrees." (Proclamation to 
Army, Sept. 13, 1914.) 



24. Con. — "and shall wear out the saints of 
the Most High, and think to change times 
and laws; (it should be noticed he only 
thinks to change them which forecasts he 
will be unsuccessful) and they shall be 
given unto his hand until a time, and times 
and the dividing of time."* 

In answer to the query "How long shall 
it be to the end of these w^onders?" Dan. 12: 
7. — "It shall be for a time, times and an 
half." Again verse II, "and from the time 
that — the abomination that maketh desolate 
shall be set up, there shall be a thousand 
two hundred and ninety days." 
* * * * 

We feel we are safe in reaching the con- 
clusion that the abomination that maketh 
desolate is directly related to the world war, 
and that it may be narrowed down to one or 
two phases of the war. First, that the ruth- 
less aggressive warfare as conducted by the 
Central Powers, with all the atrocities, as 
committed, including the submarine war- 
fare, is the abominable thing mentioned, or 
second, that it relates directly to the sub- 
marine warfare alone, an atrocious thing 
that is aimed to destroy the commerce of 
the world; aimed to make all the world de- 
solate. 

We believe it relates to the latter. 

In case it relates to the former, then it 
would apear the termination of the war 
would have been due 1290 days after the be- 
ginning, or Feb. 7th to the 11th 1918. But 
in the case of the latter, then 1290 days from 
Feb. 18, 1915, the day when submarine war- 
fare became effective, or Aug. or Sept. 1918. 

In this connection, without venturing to 
offer an opinion upon it, attention is direct- 
ed to Feb. 9th and 11th, 1918 as important 
dates in history. 

On July 28th, 1914, Francis Joseph declar- 
ed war on Serbia, and on August 1st, the 
Kaiser declared war on Russia. At the ex- 
piration of three years and a half the peace 
conference between the four Central Powers 
and the Russians was in progress. On Feb. 
9th, 1918, (counting 1916 with its 366 days) 
1292 days had expired from the inception of 
the war. On this day, at 2 A. M., the peace 
treaty between the new Republic of Ukrainia 
and the four Central Powers was signed. 



*Time means one year. The key appeal's in Dan. 4 : 25, where Nebuchadnezzar should he witli the 
'beasts of the field until "seven times" passed over him, which proved to be seven years. There- 
fore "time" (one year) "and times" (two years) "and the dividing of time" (an half j'^ar) mean 
three and one-half years, or forty-two months. 



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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



On Sunday the 10th, the delegates of the 
Coiincil of the Bolsheviki Government, de- 
creed to end the war by abandoning all hos- 
tilities and dispersing her troops, and on 
M'onda3% the 11th, precisely 1290 days after 
Germany's entrance into the war, this de- 
cree was published and the demobilization 
order was given, and Russia, the King of 
the North, with her 160,000,000 people has 
ppparently withdrawn from the war. 

Furthermore, while there had been some 
preliminary passes touching upon a confer- 
ence between the two sides, it was on this 
day. the 11th, that President Wilson made 
his memorable address to Congress outlin- 
ing more clearly the conditions under which 
a peace conference may be opened up. This 
may be accepted broadly as the terms of the 
Mlied Powers. The door to universal peace 
is now open. If Germany but had a respon- 
sible government and elected to meet the 
Entente Allies on the basis generally as 
outlined, a conference looking to a perma- 
nent world-wide peace may be had. The 
responsibility for the continuation of the 
inhuman war, therefore, rests with Ger- 
many. It will be interesting to follow the 
course of events henceforth. 



The happenings in the near future will 
enable the reader to see whether these 
natters seem to bear directly upon the ful- 
fillment of the prophecies. There does rot 
at this time appear to be any settlement in 
sieht between the countries who have been 
the Allies of the King of the North and 
their enemies.* 

"Fret not at the seeming prosperity of 

the wicked, for they shall be cut off and 

that without remedy." 

***** 

26. — "But the judgment shall sit, and they 
shall take away his (the Kaiser's) domin- 
ion, to consume and to destroy it unto the 
end." (i. e., overthrow the autocracy, not 
destroy the German people.) 

We believe the autocracy is to be over- 
thrown by the German people themselves, 
as is more specifically prophesied in another 
vision. 

27. — "And the Kingdom and dominion, 
ard the greatness of the kingdom under 
the whole heaven, shall be given to the 
people of the saints of the Most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
and all dominions shall serve and obey 
him." 



*ThiR booklet soes to nnblic^tioD in thp Intter part of February 1918. At tbis date, the Pruss- 
i^mrrtMessnePS has been further emphasized, by the demandin.s of the ^^ol^J^^i^-l^-*^^^^^^^"*- ^^ 
i.nmnlinting peace treaty awarding Germany all territory overran and an indemnity <^^-^l^P^-^^^l 
f)no rubles. This is nothing short of highway robbery. The Eohenzollern will overreach hiniself. 
'I'hese atrocities make the world aghast, and sooner or liiter his despicable work will be vitiated. 



CHAPTER V. 
Daniel's Second Vision. 
The Kaiser Again. Gabriel's Interpretation. 
He Shall Be Broken Without Hand. 



Dan. 8: 1. "In the third year of the reign 
of King Belshazzar a vision appeared unto 
me, even unto me Daniel, after that which 
appeared unto me at the first." 

This vision again discloses the great 
monarchies, beginning with Media-Persia. 

3. "Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, 
?nd. behold, there stood before me a ram. 
which had two horns (Media-Persia) and 
the two horns were high, but one was high- 
pr than the other, and the higher (Media) 
came up last. 

4. "T saw the ram pushing westward, and 
northward, and southward, so that no beasts 
(kingdoms) might stand before him, neither 
was there any that could deliver out of his 
hand; but he did according to his will, and 
became great. 



5. "And as I was considering, behold, 
-n he goat (Grecia) came from the west 
on the face of the whole earth, and touched 
not the ground: and the goat had a notable 
horn (Alexander the Great) between his 
eyes. 

6. "And he came to the ram that had two 
horns, which I had seen standing before the 
river, (i. e., across the Dardanelles,) and 
ran unto him in the fury ©f his power. 
(Alexander crossed over by a pontoon 
bridge.) 

"And T saw him come close unto the ram, 
and he was moved with choler (violent an- 
e:er) against him. and smote the ram, and 
brake his two horns; and there was no 
power in the ram to stand before him, but 
he cast him down to the ground, and 



THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM 



21 



stamped upon him; and there was none 
that could deliver the ram out of his 
hand." 

History records Alexander's advance as 
simply irresistible. 

8. "Therefore the goat waxed very great, 
and when he was strong, the great horn 
was broken; and for it came up four notable 
ones toward the four winds of heaven." 

Alexander the Great died without issue, 
neither did he designate any successor. 
The Empire was divided, the most impor- 
tant being the Kingdom of Egypt (the realm 
oi the Ptolemies to the south;) the King- 
dom of Syria (the realm of Selencidae, now 
the Turk, to the east;) the Northern areas 
which were finally merged into the Russian 
Empire, and Macedonia to the west, which 
with the destruction of Corinth by the Ro- 
man General Mumius, passed completely 
into the hands of the Romans, who made 
it a provinco. 

9. "And out of one of them came forth a 
little horn (being the same little horn as 
in the earlier vision, Dan. 7:8, the Kaiser) 
which waxed exceeding great, toward the 
south, and towai'd the east, and toward the 
pleasant land. 

10. "And it waxed great, even to the host 
of heaven (the righteous ones, whose names 
are written in the book of life) and it cast 
down some of the host (the men) and of 
the stars .(officers) to the ground, and 
stamped upon them." 

* * * * 

The following quotation is given relating 
to the host: 

Josh. 5: 14. "Nay, but as Captain of the 
host of the Lord am I come. And Joshua 
fell on his face to the earth and did wor- 
ship and said. What saith my lord unto his 
servant? 

15. "And the Captain of the Lord's host 
said. Loose they shoes from off thy foot, for 
the place whereon thou stand is holy 
ground. And Joshua did so." 

* * * .;•. 

11. "Yea, he magnified himself even to 
the prmce of the host (i. e., claimed to be 
the leader of the host, instead of the Lord. 
In a recent address to his soldiers he spoke 
of himself as "Your Supreme War Lord") 
and by him the daily sacrifice was taken 
away, and the place of His (the Lord's) 



sanctuary cast down." 

ihe expression, "the daily sacrifice," may 
not be definitely understood, we know, 
however, that sanctuaries were shelled and 
polluted, and no religious riies or place of 
worship of the Entente Allies has been re- 
bpecced or held sacred by ihe Kaiser, his 
generals, or his men, or by the Turks. An 
mscance is the theft of the treasures and 
uriiliants of the Church of the Holy Sepul- 
unre at Jerusalem, which was under the 
auministration of the Patriarch of the 
ureeK Christian Church, by agreement of 
the nations, and the removal of the spoils 
lo Constantinople and Berlin. 

12, "And an host was given him against 
the daily sacrifice by reason of transgres- 
sion, and it cast down the truth to the 
ground; and it practiced and prospered." 

Tnis host IS the Turkish host, the army of 
tne T urk, which has committed intolerable 
crimes against the Christians, and certainly 
lias cast down the truth to the ground. 

15. "And it came to pass, when I, even i 
Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for 
the meaning, then, behold, there stood be- 
fore me as the appearance of a man. 

16. "And I heard a man's voice between 
the banks of Ulai, which called and said, 
Gabriel, make this man to understand the 
vision. 

17. "So he came near where I stood ; and 
when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon 
my face; but he said unto me. Understand, 
U son of man; for at the time of the end 
shall be the vision. 

19. "And he said. Behold, I will make 
tnee know what shall be in the last end 
of the indignation; for at the time appointed 
Ihe end shall be.* 

20. "The ram which thou sawest having 
two horns are the kings of Media and Per- 
sia. (Note: Reference is made to this in 
chapter. XIV.) 

21. "And the rough goat is the king of 
Grecia; and the great horn that is between 
Ihe eyes is the first king. (Alexander the 
Great.) 

22. "Now that being broken, whereas four 
stood up for it, four kingdoms (Egypt, Tur- 
key, Russia and Macedonia, as above stat- 
ed,) shall stand up out of the nation, but 
not in his (Alexander the Great's) power. 

23. "And in the later part of their king- 

„nfPii''^^U^^ ^^-n^"^ ?'"^ ^Ul'^ i^'dignation, not the end of the uorld. The latter will not come 
until alter the millennium. Christ speaking of the wars and tribulations, said. Mat 24-6 'Fo^' 
all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet." ' ' 



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doms ^vllen the transgressors are come to 
the full, a king of fierce countenance, and 
understanding dark sentences (the Kaiser) 
shall stand up. 

24. "And his power shall be mighty, but 
not by his own power." 

(Rev. 13:2. "And the Dragon gave him his 
power and his seat and great authority.") 

25. "And he shall destroy wonderfully, 
and shall prosper, and practise, and shall 
destroy the mighty and the holy people. 

25. "And through his policy also he shall 
cause craft to prosper in his hand; and 
shall magnify himself in his heart, and by 
peace shall he destroy many." 
* * * * 

A quotation is made from President Wil- 
son's Flag Day address: "The war was be- 
gun by the military masters of Germany, who 
proved also to be the masters of Austria- 
Hungary. They have regarded them Uhe 
people) as servioable organizations which 
they could by force or intrigue bend or ccr 
rupt to their own purpose. Austria-HuE- 
gary was as much their tool and pawn as 



Sorvia, Bulgaria or Turkey. Austria-Hun- 
gary was to become a part of the Central 
German Empire, absorbed and dominated 
by the same forces and influences that had 
originally cemented the German States 
themselves. The dream had its heart in 
Berlin." 

Thus the Kaiser has controlled these 
countries by peace. 

* * * * 

25. "He (the Kaiser) shall also stand up 
against the Prince of Princes (Christ the 
Lord), but he shall be broken without 
hand." 

Attention is directed to Dan. 2:34. "Thou 
sawest till a stone was cut out without 
hands." (That is, by Divine power. The 
stone represents Christ and the Church.) 

26. "And the vision of the evening and 
the morning which was told is true; where- 
fore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be 
for many days. 

27. "I was astonished at the vision, but 
none understod it." 



CHAPTER VL 



Autocracy Against Democracy. The Crescent 
Against the Cross. 



The note of Austria, dated July 23rd, sub- 
mitted ten specific demands and demanded 
an answer at 6 o'clock p. m., July 25th, 
1914 — within 48 hours. Serbia, failing to 
obtain an extension, replied two minutes 
before the expiration of the time, yielding 
as to eight, offering as to the ninth that 
Serbia would accept such collaboration of 
agents of the Dual Monarchy as should 
conform to the principles of international 
law and criminal practice. The Austrian 
officials' rejoinder stated it was not a ques- 
tion of international law, but of police regu- 
lation that she insisted upon. The other 
demand was declined on the ground that 
compliance w^ould violate Serbia's Constitu 
tion, but agreed if the answer was not sat- 
isfactory, to submit the dispute to the 
Hague Tribunal, or to the Great Powers, 
which the Entente Powers were satisfied 
was a substantial agreement to the Aus- 
trian demands. 

But Emperor Francis Joseph ruthlessly 
rejected the answer and declared war on 
Serbia July 28, 1914, and Germany sup- 
ported the act. 



As developed by the inquiry of the So- 
cialistic side in the Reichstag, a most sig- 
nificant secret meeting was held in Berlin, 
presided over by the Kaiser, July 5, 1914, 
or three weeks before Russia, France, Ser- 
bia, Belgium or England dreamed of it, 
where the principal points of the ultimatum 
were decide dupon, and the war and mo- 
bilization for it were also decided upon, 
without knowledge thereof by the people of 
Germany or Austria-Hungary. There were 
present, besides the Kaiser, Herr von Beth 
mann-Hollweg, Admiral von Tirpitz, Gen 
eral von Falkenhayn, Herr von Strumm, the 
Archduke Frederick, Count Berchtold, Count 
Tisza and General Conrad von Hotzendorf. 
Thus the crime was traced to its source. 

Had there been no ultimatum on Serbia, 
there would have been no mobilization in 
Russia and consequently no war in Europe. 

Had there been no war of aggresion be- 
gun, no overrunning of Belgium, England 
and her allies w^ould not have employed 
their fleets for Germany's discomfiture. 

The hands of these men are stained with 
innocent blood. They, including his spawn, 



THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM 



the Crown Prince, who is of the same 
stripe, should pay the death penalty. The 
blood of the millions of innocent persons 
cries out for this. The people of Germany 
and of Austria, who are among the victims, 
should take them in hand, and we may 
expect this very thing to happen: for it is 
prophesied that at the appointed time "they 
shall take his (the Kaiser's) dominion 
away; yea, they that feed of a portion of 
his meat shall destroy him." 



* * * * 



On February 4, 1915, Germany declared 
the waters around the British Isles a war 
zone after February 18, 1915. She declared 
the intention of sinking every enemy mer- 
chant ship found in the zone, even if it were 
impossible to save the crew and passen- 
gers; also, that neutral ships entering the 
war zone would be in danger.* 

The German Embassy had the audacity 
to warn Americans, through the American 
newspapers, against sailing on the Cunard 
Line Steamship Lusitania,* beforehand ; 
followed by the sinking of the Lusitania by 
a German submarine on May 7th, 1915, re- 
sulting in the loss of 1,150 lives. 

The Kaiser awarded the captain of the 
submarine the Iron Cross. 

Germany, having desisted from sinking 
American merchant vessels for a time, ex- 
tended the war zone, and resumed the sub- 
marine warfare with greater violence than 
therefore, on February 1st, 1917. This was 
followed by the declaration of war by the 
Congress of the United States on April 6th, 
1917. 

Our honored President has said, "The 
United States is fighting for no advantage 
or selfish object of her own, but for the 
liberation of peoples everywhere from the 
aggression of autocratic force." 

Secretary Lane said, "Germany made the 
attack upon us; on our ships, our lives, our 
rights, our future. She did things which 
outraged man's common sense of fair play 
and humanity. The invasion of Belgium 
led to the invasion of the United States 
by slow, steady, logical steps. A power 
that has no sympathy with our purpose and 
will not hesitate to destroy us if we stand 
across her set will to make the world bow 



to her policies. 

"The United States is at war to save her- 
self and the rest of the world from the 
nation that has linked itself with the Turk 
and adopted the method of Mahomet. The 
world of Christ has again come face to 
face with the world of Mahomet, who willed 
to win by forces. 

"We are fighting Germany because she 
sought to terrorize us. We fight for an 
honest world; in which nations keep their 
word; in which nations do not live by swag- 
ger or by threat; in which the ambition of 
the few cannot make miserable all man- 
kind; for a world in which man is held 
more precious than the machine, the sys- 
tem or the State." 

Secretary Houston has pointed out that 
Germany, unable to maintain the old "three- 
mile blockade," cast aside the laws of right 
and morality, and to have longer permitted 
her insolent dictation on the high seas, or 
acceded thereto, would have been a waiver 
of international rights and a surrender of 
the sovereignty of our nation. 

And so we entered into the great war, 
which Bradstreet calls the irrepressible con- 
flict between the two great systems of gov- 
ernment. 

THE GERMAN DELUSION. MIGHT 
MAKES RIGHT. 

Woltmann declares that "the German race 
is called to bind the earth together under 
its control, to exploit the natural resources 
and the physical powers of man, to use the 
passive races In subordinate capacities for 
the development of its kultur." 

In this connection, permit a brief refer- 
ence to an evil influence that has taken 
strong root with the autocratic supporters 
in Germany, one that has undoubtedly led 
them away from the vital doctrines of 
Christianity, from the lofty ideals of right 
reason, equity and truth, and beclouded 
their vision, and through the abandonment 
of the laws of God and man, led them into 
the heartless scheme of militarism and 
conquest, and consequently into national 
sin. 

The materialistic German Philosophers, 
the Scientists of the German Universities, 
all linked up with and dominated by the 



*The reader may reach the opinion that the submarine warfare is in itself the abomination that 
maketh desolate. In case this be true the war should be concluded 1290 daj-s from Feb. 18. 191">. 
as this was the date it was first set up. True, Germany had been sinking merchant ships thereto- 
fore, but this decree affecting the rights of the world was then put into effect. 



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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



German system, have questioned the sur- 
vival of the human soul after death; and the 
continued life of the spirit, apart from the 
bodily organism, is today widely denied and 
declared to be unscientific in their scientific 
circles. This has been widely promulgated, 
taught, emphasized and accepted until it has 
taken a strong hold upon them and warped 
the finer impulses of multitudes of her peo- 
ple; and this false logic has opened the way 
10 accepting the false premise that might 
Hiakes right, by the military masters of Ger- 
many. 

It is maintained that the mental life of 
man is so closely connected with and in- 
variably dependent upon the brain that a 
continuance of any intellectual function af- 
ter the dissolution of the body is inconceiv- 
able. 

A noted German Professor from one of 
their leading Universities delivered a lecture 
in support of the German contention before 
an audience of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania a short time before the war was de- 
clared. 

This doctrine is cold, harsh, metallic, 
coarse, unsympathetic and is distasteful to 
the thinking mind. 

This, of itself, is a denial of the teachings 
of Christ, and is instantly rejected by all 
the true followers of God. 

The bigoted fool could see one point only, 
the material, with the mental functions he 
was pleased to attribute as pertaining there- 
to; whereas, we in faith believe that God 
hath brought forth the body and soul, and 
also to those who are bom of the Spirit of 
God, the Spirit, with its spiritual life, and 
elects to encompass each with suitable laws 
that shall govern. 

A person who does not sincerely believe 
in God cannot love Him and will not obey 

him. 

* * * * 

Still other tactics are employed by Prus- 
sia nism, as set forth by Booth Tarkington, 
as follows: 

"It is a preposterous but undeniable truth 
that there exists a large and powerful group 
of Germans — prosperous people and of high 
attainment in certain specialties — who have 
decided to have great numbers of simple 
minded, trustful men, go out and kill their 
fellowmen, and continue to kill them, in 
order to increase the power of the plotters. 
The majority of these men who do the actual 



killing would obtain no benefit for them 
selves, and were deceived as to the causes 
and objects in hand." 

"FOND OF THEMSELVES" 

"We Germans" it trumpets, "we are God s 
chosen people. His special favorites, and 
God is German Himself. God rules over us 
m the person of the Kaiser, whom He ap- 
pointed for that purpose. We are betuei 
than all other people of the earth; we aie 
wiser and purer and nobler, and more m- 
dustries and more learned and stronger and 
cleverer and kinder and braver and more 
spiritual and more warlike than all others.' 

"We are so much greater than they that 
whatever we do to advance our own inter- 
ests at the cost of theirs, is right and praise- 
worthy. If we kill a great many of them, 
those who survive will in the end be im- 
proved, because they will work for us and 
learn something by observing us. Any de- 
ceit is proper and morally correct if it bene 
fits us; and when we practice a policy of 
terror upon those who oppose us, it is really 
philanthropy, and shows how gentle we are, 
because the survivors learn through our 
cruelty that it is useless to oppose us, there- 
fore they the sooner submit their wills to 
ours. We cannot do wrong, no matter what 
we do, so long as all that we do is for our 
own benefit. And, since our nature is war- 
like, war is beautiful and necessary. We 
study in peace times how to use every man 
of us in time of war, and that is our great 
giory. By our bright swords we will take 
possession of the earth, which ought to be- 
long to us, because we are Germans. We be- 
lieve in the heaviest possible breeding of 
babies, that they may grow up to be trained 
t) carry liguid fire and poison against any 
opposition to us. And, all the same, we are 
the only real peace lovers in this malign 
and prejudiced world, which, except for us 
and the Austrians and the Bulgarians and 
the Turks, is composed exclusively of stupid 
ruffians who were so jealous and envious of 
us that they forced this war upon us, hoping 
to make some money out of us by annihilat- 
ing us. We love peace, and are fighting for 
our mere existence, that is, the right to ad- 
just our frontiers so that they will include 
the countries which we have conquered by 
the sword. For instance, we must never be 
threatened by an invasion through Belgium. 
We prepared for this war as no country ever 
before prepared — not even in 1870, when we 



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made war on France — and we were forced 
lo begin it before somebody else did." 

The Prussian and the Turk cannot play 
the game according to the rules. They do 
not know the meaning of the word "sport." 
It is beyond them. 

* * * * 

Until the outbreak of the war, the Ger 
man people enjoyed the confidence and re- 
spect of the world at large. They were 
believed to be a Christian nation, indus- 
trious, efficient, worthy of confidence, and 
governed by right and honorable motives; 
but oh, how greatly have they shrunk! By 
their endorsement of the Kaiser in his 
abandonment of the covenants and the laws 
of nations, they have become a hissing and 
a by-word throughout the world. 

Unless the German people recede from 
their course and meet the demand of the 



nations on a fair and equitable basis for 
their future safety, they will have to take 
their punishment. They cannot afford to 
be held permanently as an outlaw nation. 
The United States Chamber of Commerce, 
comprising five hundred thousand of our 
leading enterprising business men, recently 
by a referendum vote of 1,204 for and 154 
against, adopted strong resolutions to the 
effect that Prussian Militarism is recog- 
nized as a menace to the peace of the world, 
and that in case Germany does not elect to 
adopt a responsible government, they will 
decline to supply her manufacturers with 
raw materials, or resume trade relations 
with her merchants after the end of the 
war. It is fair to assume that similar 
action will be taken by the business fra- 
ternities in all the countries that have as- 
sociated themselves in the cause for liberty. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Daniel's Third Vision. 

The Turk the King of the South, and Russia the King of the North. 



Dan. 10:1. "In the third year of Cyrus, 
king of Persia, a thing was revealed unto 
Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzer, and 
the thing was true, but the time appointed 
was long. 

5. "And I lifted up mine eyes and looked, 
and beheld a certain man clothed in linen, 
w^hose loins were girded with fine gold. 
His body was like beryl, and his eyes as 
lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet 
like in color to polished brass, and the voice 
of his words like^ the voice of a multitude. 

7. "1, Daniel, was alone and saw this 
great vision. 

8. "And there remained no strength in 
me. 

11. "And — an hand touched me, — and he 
said, O Daniel, — understand what I speak 
unto thee and stand upright; for unto thee 
am I now sent; — and I stood trembling. 

14. "Now I am come to make thee un- 
derstand what shall befall thy people in 
the latter days ; for yet the vision is for 
many days. 

11: 2. "And how I will shew thee the 
truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet 
three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall 
be far richer than they all; and by his 
strength through his riches he shall stir up 
all (make war) against the realm of Gre- 



Please observe that this vision like the 
others relates to the world's great mon- 
archies, beginning with Persia, heretofore 
mentioned as Media-Persia. 

3. "And a mighty king shall stand up that 
shall rule with great dominion, (Alexander 
the Great, again,) and shall do according 
to his will. 

4. "And when he shall stand up, his king- 
dom shall be broken, and shall be divided 
toward the four winds of heaven; (into 
four successors as heretofore explained,) 
and not to his posterity, (for he had no 
offspring,) nor according to his dominion 
which ruled; for his kingdom shall be 
plucked up even for others besides those. 

5. "And the king of the South, (the Turk; 
please observe this is the first reference to 
the king of the South,) shall be strong, and 
one of his princes; and shall be strong 
above him, and shall have dominion; his 
dominion shall be a great dominion. 

7. "But out of a branch of her roots shall 
one (Mahomet II) rise up in his (the king 
of the South's — Turkey's) estate, which 
shall come with an army, and shall enter 
into the fortress (Constantinople) of the 
king of the North," (Russia, as represent- 
ing broadly the Greek Church, the Slavonic 



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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



peoples, who, declining to be under the 
supremacy of the Pope, and not exacting 
celibacy of her priests, and immersing three 
limes in baptism, in the name of the Father 
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, had 
broken away from the Roman Catholic 
Church,) "and shall deal against them and 
shall prevail." 

The high perpendicular walls and the 
narrow meandering straight at Constanti- 
nople lend themselves admirably to make 
the Dardanelles the most formidable natural 
fortress in the world. 

8. "And shall also carry captives into 
Egypt their gods, with their princes, and 
with their precious vessels of silver and 
gold, and he shall continue more years than 

the king of the North." 

***** 

Mahomet II's succesors extended the do- 
minion of Turkey greatly into Europe, as 
elsewhere mentioned, with inhuman cruel- 
ties, revolting and appalling. 

He himself upon capturing Constantino- 
ple, caused the Cross to be trampled under 
foot; the statues of the Saints, no less ob- 
jects of abhorrence to the Turk than of the 
veneration of the Christians, were dragged 
through the streets with every insult which 
barbarous triumph could imagine; convents 
were forced open and virgins violated at 
the altar. Sixty thousand Greek Christians 
were led captive; families living in refine- 
ment and^ luxury scattered; the old to pass 
the remainder of their days in slavery ; the 
young to fill the harems of their victorious 
and voluptuous masters. 

Mahomet alighted from his horse at the 
Church of St. Sophia, and declared, "The 
town and all the buildings belong to me.' 
He then ordered an Inman to ascend the 
patriarchal pulpit and gave out a hymn of 
thanksgiving to (the Dragon) Allah, thus 



dedicating this Holy Sanctuary to the Mo- 
hammedan worship, and converting it from 
a sacred Christian temple into a mosque. 

From thence he w^ent to the Imperial 
palace, and repeated a Persian distach, sig- 
nifying : 

"The spider hath woven her web in the 
palace of the Emperors and the owl hath 
sung her watch song in the towers of Efra- 
siyah." 

Saint Sophia, (formerly the Christian 
Church of the Divine Worship,) was com- 
pleted in 538 A. D. by the successors of 
Constantino, of the Greek Church. Ten 
thousand masons were employed, and it is 
one among the finest structures, of the 
world, having lasted to the present, not- 
withstanding many severe earthquakes. The 
entire edifice is not only the supreme mas- 
terpiece of Byzantine art, but one of the 
finest of all time. F'rom 538 to 1453 A. D. 
(915 years) it was the Christian church at 
the capital, Constantinople. 
* * * * * 

9. "So the king of the South shall come 
into his kingdom, and shall return into his 
own land. 

10. "But his (Russia's) sons shall be 
stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude 
of great forces; (this appears to relate to 
the several wars of the Europeans against 
Turkey, wherein her power in Europe was 
greatly weakened and her dominion greatly 
reduced;) and one shall certainly come, and 
overfiow and pass through; (i. e., overrun 
her teritory in conquest, which fits the 
case of the recent Balkan War.) Then 
shall he (the Turk) be stirred up, (i. e., be 
warred upon,) even to his fortress." (His 
capital, Constantinople. Observe, please, the 
cortress was not taken.) This brings it 
down to the end of the Balkan War. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
The Turk. The False Prophet: The Anti Christ, 



Before proceeding with the prophecies, 
a summary is given of the religion of the 
Turk and the merest outline of his abom- 
inable work. 

The self-proclaimed prophet Mohammed, 
v/hom we believe to be the False Prophet, 
w^as born about 570 A. D. and died in 633. 
Incidentally he made his flight from Mecca 



to Medina June 16, 622 A. D., and this date 
is the beginning of the "Mohammedan 
Era," which is used instead' of the Christian 
Era by the Moslem World, embracing in all 
the countries, 220,000,000 people more or 
less. 

He w^as the founder of the Mohammedan 
or Islam religion, which is in most striking 



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27 



contrast with the Christian faith. 

Mohammed identified himself with an or- 
der of messengers or prophets to whom he 
counted Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Hud, Tha- 
mud and others. He, however, claimed to 
be the messenger of Allah, who, we believe, 
is the false god, the counterfeit, Satan. And, 
incidentally, it may be stated there never 
would have been a counterfeit without there 
had been first an original, a genuine. Mo- 
hammed heard voices, evidently allure- 
ments of the Devil. Note always that the 
Devil invariably weaves in some good in 
order to make his deception plausible. 

Mohammed assumed to be the greatest 
of all the Prophets. His pronouncements 
therefore superceded all the others, and 
their laws and teachings, when in conflict, 
were cast aside. 

iThe Koran was the law and the five car- 
dinal points of the Islam are: "There *s 
no other God but Allah, and Mohammed 
is the Prophet." "Prayer to Allah;" "Alms- 
giving;" "The Fast of Ramadan" and "The 
Pilgrimage, once in one's lifetime, to Mec- 
ca." 

Allah, (the Mohammedan god,) it was de- 
clared, had no offspring; consequently the 
divinity of Jesus Christ was denied. We 
begin to see the hand of Satan, 

John 2: 2-23. "Who is a liar but he that 
denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is 
Anti-Christ, that denieth the Father and the 
Son." 

"Whoso denieth the Son, the same hath 
not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the 
Son hath the Father also." 

Temporal and spiritual power is assumed 
to be vested in the Prophet and the Ca- 
liphs, his successors. 

The Moslem believes in eternal punish- 
ment for the wicked. (Another false doc- 
trine.) 

Come to think of it, how very cunning, de- 
ceitful and mischievous the Devil has been 
to thus plant in the minds of the people 
this false conception of a loving God; the 
tortuous belief that God would busy Him- 
self throughout all eternity in perpetuating 
the torture of fallen man; vindictively, un- 
yieldingly, forevermore. 

The soul of man, we may safely infer, is 
not endowed with immortality at the bour 



of birth. "God breathed into man's body 
the breath of life and man became a living 
soul," not an immortal soul. 

Birds, animals, are given life — true, a 
lower order of life than man — but not im- 
mortality. We believe they perish at death. 
We are told the soul that sinneth shall die. 
The wicked perish as the beasts of the 
field. 

God awards to men, first, the gift of life 
on earth, with its joys and sorrows, and 
under the beckoning of the Holy Spirit on 
the one hand and the temptations of the 
Devil on the other. At the termination of 
this life, whether in death, or, if then living, 
in translation, when Christ comes in the 
clouds. He awards to those who are ac- 
counted worthy, and to the children who, 
being innocent of wilful sin and coming 
within the realm of those who were re- 
deemed, the pearl of Great Price, Immortal 
Life. 

That immortality is not bestowed on man 
at birth is shown by the Scriptures. "To 
those who seek for immortality ... He 
gives eternal life." If man possessed it al- 
ready he would not be referred to as seek- 
ing for it. Paul, speaking of the Brethren 
in the Church, said, "This mortal . . . 
through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, 
. . . shall put on immortality." If they 
possessed it, they would not have to put 
it on. 

The words "immortal soul" do not appear 
in the Bible. The word "immortal" (end- 
less existence) does not appear in the Old 
Testament and only five times in the New. 
Once it relates to God, the Father; once to 
Jesus Christ, the Son, and three times to 
the children of God. It nowhere relates to 
the wicked. 

This term "immortal soul" was coined by 
someone in times past and has been so 
generally used that many have accepted the 
erroneous idea that the souls of all persons 
are immortal. This is unfortunate in that 
it leads to the false belief that the wicked 
are visited with endless torment ; that God 
will punish men and women of His own 
creation, born in ignorance, tempted and 
deceived by Satan, for the sins of life, be 
they twenty years or seventy, with grievous 
torment throughout all the billions and bil- 
lions of years of eternity! It is a most 
horrible thought. It is one of the delusions 
the Devil hath wrought in the minda of 



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men to lead them to believe that God is a 
tyrant, unmerciful and vindictive for ever- 
more. 

Immortality is not forced upon man. We 
must diligently, persistently seek for it. It 
is denied to Satan and the wicked, who 
perish in the second death. The wicked in 
the sight of the Lord are an offense, like 
chaff and waste. Like the sweepings of 
the floor to us. We throw away the dirt, 
or burn it up. 

* * * * :^ 

The Moslem believes in the predestination 
of good and evil, which is found from the 
beginning irrevocably and thus unavoidably 
pre-ordained. (Another cunning deception.) 

A Moslem may have four wives, and may 
cohabit with his concubine slaves without 
limit as to number. (Still another.) Mo- 
hammed himself after the first pronounce- 
ment, desiring more than four, received a 
special dispensation from Allah, allowing 
him to take others; (he had nine wives and 
two concubines,) and the same privilege is 
extended to succeeding caliphs; hence 
there follows the harem of the Sultans with 
their Garden of Delight. 

A Moslem may buy his wife by paying 
her parents a stipulated price. The parents 
may give or sell their daughter under age 
without her consent. 

A Moslem may marry a Christian woman 
or a Jewess, but a Moslem woman cannot, 
under any circumstances, marry a Chris- 
tian or a Jew. Their offsrping are Mos- 
lem. A Moslem may divorce a wife at any 
time by merely saying, "I divorce thee," 
without process of law. 

Infidelity or apostacy of the Moslem 
faith is a crime to be visited by the death 
of the offender. (Murder.) 

A further injunction is that war shall 
be made upon infidels, which, from their 
point of view, includes Christians and 
Jews. He who is slain while fighting in 
defence of or for Islam is a martyr, but a 
deserter forfeits the right of life. 

At first all enemies taken in battle were 
slain. Later, however, it became the law 
to give the people of a different faith 
against whom war was declared the choice 
of three things: 1. Either to embrace Islam; 
2. To submit and pay tribute; or 3, to de- 
cide the quarrel by the fortunes of war, in 
which case the captive women and children 
were made slaves, and the men slain if 



they did not become converts. 

The fifth part of the spoils must be de- 
voted to the Sanctuary, to the Prophet and 
liis kindred, orphans and travellers. (Rob- 
bery.) 

On the whole, it seems that Satan did 
his best in framing up this counterfeit. 

It is estimated that while there are about 
220,000,000 Moslems in the world, it ma.v 
J 3 roughly estimated that only those of 
Turkey, probably nine per cent, of the 
whole, or 20,000,000, are engaged in the 
world war. The Kaiser made a vigorous 
effort to incite the Mohammedans of the 
entire Moslem world against the Christians, 
tiius engulfing the world in a still greater 
religious war, but failed so far as the 91 
per cent, were concerned. 

This would seem to prove that the Mos- 
lems outside of Turkey have absorbed more 
from the laws of Moses and let us hope 
from the teachings of Jesus, and less from 
Mohammed, and that the Turk is the more 
irrational branch of the Moslem faith. The 
prophecies relate to the Kaiser and the 
Ottoman Turk in terms that are not diffi- 
cult to understand. 

The title of the property in Turkey is 
largely vested in the Crown and in the 
Church. The Sultan assumes both tem- 
poral and spiritual power. The autocracy 
was overthrown in 1909, and the Sultan 
deposed, but backed by the Kaiser, as here- 
inafter set forth, the old conditions have 
been restored. Seventy-five per cent, of 
the people are illiterate and they are very 
poor indeed. An important tenet of the 
Prophet's teaching is that they must be re- 
signed to the will of Allah and submit in 
patience to their hard lot. 

It is impossible for men, women and 
children under such unhappy environments, 
and under such a wicked and corrupt gov- 
ernment, and such a false religion, to be 
possessed of lofty ideals and happy homes: 
The conditions are all against them, and 
tend to degeneracy. Theirs is a hard lot, 
and they make it intolerable for the Chris- 
tian people with whom they come in con- 
tact, especially in time of war. 
TURKEY. 

Osman I, or Othman, surnamed al Ghazi, 
i. e., the conqueror, was the founder of the 
Ottoman or Turkish Power. He was born 
i:i Bithynia; his father, Eroghaul, was a 
Turkish Chief. On the death of the latter, 



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In 1288 A. D. (note the date, please!) his 
tribe chose his son, Osman I, or Othman 
(i e., the young bastard) as his successor. 
He is the head of the House of Othman. 
Imperial succession in the Turkish Empire 
vests In the older member of the House of 
Othman. Just before Othman's death, his 
son Orchan, or Orkan, captured Brusa, the 
ancient capital of Bathynia, which became 
the capital of the Turkish Power. 

Othman became possessed of Jenisalen 
and Palestine and conquered all northwest 
of Asia Minor. In 1300 A. D. he overthrew 
the Seljukian Empire and he reigned as an 
absolute monarch from that date to his 
death in 1326. It is probable he took the 
title of Sultain in 1299. He struck money 
in his own name. He assumed both the 
temporal power and that of Caliph (the 
spiritual power, as successor to the prophet 
Mohammed.) From him are derived the 
terms Ottoman, Osmanlis, which are em- 
ployed as synonymous with Turks. 

Orchan succeeded his father, extended 
the Ottoman Power, and among other 
atrocities exacted a tribute of children from 
the conquered Christian peoples, and these 
he reared as Mohammedans, trained them 
with rigid military discipline and organized 
them into an efficient fighting machine. 

His successors waged fierce wars, over- 
ran southeastern Europe, (Mahomet II. cap- 
turing Constantinople in 1453,) conquering 
the Balkan peninsula, Greece, Bulgaria, Al- 
bania. Montenegro, Servia, Bosnia, Herze- 
govnia, the region of the Danube, Egypt 
and Northern Africa, Armenia, Arabia and 
Persia. Turkey became a great empire, 
•--stablished by brute force, and by a system 
of cruelty, and coercion with such heart- 
less oppression, that we can understand 
how this . autocracy was supported by the 
power of the Dragon, and the second beast, 
ahe Kaiser,) as the Scriptures reveal. The 
Turk and the Kaiser are worthy partners 
in crime. 



It was a common occurrence for an Ot- 
toman Prince, upon the death of his father, 
to kill one or more of his brothers who, 
should he be permitted to live, might per- 
chance contest his throne. Mahomet TI., 
for instance, surnamed El Ghazi (Con- 
queror of Infidels,) murdered his brother 
as his first act upon ascending to the 
throne, and Mahomet III. murdered his 
nineteen brothers, upon the death of his 
father, in order to ensure his seat. 
FALSE PROPHETS. 
Apart from the False Prophet, we read 
that other (Mat. 13:22) "False— prophets 
shall rise and show signs and wonders, to 
seduce, if it were possible, even the elect." 
Mary Baker Eddy, for example, founder 
of the Christian Science Sect, who denies 
the fundamentals. A simile would be 
found in a court who would set aside the 
Constitution. Denies that Jesus was mirac- 
ulously conceived and the only begotten 
Son of God; denies the reality of sin and 
consequently denies the necessity of re- 
pentance therefor and of the atonement; 
denies the reality of matter, and conse- 
quently the reality of pain; and would have 
man divine and good In his own right; im- 
personal and but a part of the Great God; 
indeed, a sort of Spiritual Pantheism. 
Christian Science is a misnomer from start 
to finish. It is not Christian, nor is it 
Science. That the Lord heals the sick in 
answer to prayers is not questioned, but is 
fully in harmony with the Christian faith. 
P is the subtle perversion of this principle 
that is challenged. 

Another is Buddha, the pessimist, who 
holds that all is evil and that the desired 
goal to be reached is oblivion. The faith 
of his followers does not lead them into 
the glorious hope of immortal life. It is 
beyond their vision. Their sought-for haven 
i-i the place of the lost in the faith of the 
Christian. It is simply another of Satan's 
delusions. 



At the conclusion of the conquest of 
southeastern Europe in 1453, Mahomet II 
assumed the title of Emperor. The Ger- 
man Emperor did not recognize this rival 
as entitled to the title of Emperor until 



CHAPTER IX. 

Collateral Subjects and Events. 

1718. Soon thereafter, in 1721, Peter the 
Great of Russia assumed the title of Czar. 
In 1804 Francis II. of Austria adopted the 
title of Emperor of Austria. After the war 
of 1871 the Hohenzollern King William I. 



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of Prussia, the grandfather of the Kaiser, 
revived and assumed the title of German 
Emperor. Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria as- 
sumed autocratic power when he broke 
away from Turkey. 

These five countries were therefore ruled 
by autocrats at the outbreak of the war. 
Incidentally it may be stated, the last ves- 
tige of Papal temporal jurisdiction, outside 
of the Vatican, disappeared in 1870. Aus- 
tria and Spain assumed the role of defend- 
ers of the Roman Catholic Church. 
* * <D « 

A careful study of the prophecies will dis- 
close that the form of government or the 
particular ruler which is condemned in the 
Scriptures is invariably an autocracy or an 
autocrat, whose heart is turned away from 
the laws of God; and the conclusion of 
every prophecy is that the dominion (ths 
absolute power) of such person shall be 
taken away. Many persons in studying the 
Scriptures have marvelled why it is that 
important countries like England, with her 
important Dominions or Colonies, Canada, 
Australia, South Africa and India; France, 
the United States, Brazil and others are 
not brought forth prominently in the pro- 
phecies, while so great emphasis has been 
laid on the four great world monarchies; 
and also the king of the South, the king 
of the North and the accursed Little Horn. 
The whole subject clarifies when we 
catch the viewpoint that a despotism, an 
autocracy, is an evil of the grossest possi- 
ble kind ; an evil that the experience of the 
world has clearly demonstrated deprives 
children of their birthright, deprives men 
and women of their liberty and of justice, 
and of their religious freedom, deprives 
man of his manhood and woman of her 
womanhood; in the case of the Turk sub- 
jecting her and her offspring to the great- 
est possible indignities and degradation. It 
is an abominable system of government and 
the world has tolerated it altogether too 
long already. 

The declarations of prophecy are there- 
fore against this monstrocity. Nowhere in 
the Scriptures can there be found any de- 
nouncement of government of a Democratic 
form, hence it may be inferred that the 
evils in government against which pro 
nouncement was made are not so strikingly' 
present in the Democratic governments re 
ferred to. 



It is true, unworthy men infest all coun- 
tries, democracies as well as autocracies, 
and in their individual capacity and inde- 
pendently of the government, oppress and 
do violence to the laws of God and the 
rights of man; but in the democracies, 
there are means available whereby reforms 
may be instigated and laws enacted to 
suppress these evils, and correct abuses, 
prevent wars, excepting such as the people 
through their chosen representatives' au- 
thorize, control the levy of taxes and the 
salaries of their officials. Conscious of 
this power, the people have every incentive 
to make theirs an ideal government. Where- 
as, in a monarchy they are powerless to 
initiate and pass legislation wholesome to 
the masses. 

The verdict of the world is that a peo- 
ple who will submit to such domination 
are lacking in initiative, in spirit and in 
manhood, and are doing gross injustice to 
themselves and their posterity. 

Certain references, however, do unquest- 
ionably appear in the prophesies that relate 
to the great countries mentioned, but the 
terms thereof are commendable. They are 
mentioned as "upright nations," and as 
"righteous ones," and their people as 
"saints of the Most High." 
* * * * 

Prior to the Franco-German war in 1870- 
71 all the nations had bi-metalism. It should 
never have been changed and had it not 
been changed the panic of 1893 would not 
have occurred. 

Here the evil work of Germany again ap- 
pears. 

After having robbed France of one billion 
dollars in gold, Germany, feeling very strong, 
and, desiring to make her position in com- 
parison with France and the other nations 
still stronger, demonetized silver. Un- 
fortunately the heads of other nations 
followed her lead, resulting in the closing 
of the Indian mints to the coinage of silver 
with the sudden decline in its value. This 
brought on a most disastrous bank panic 
that carried down thousands of our busi- 
nessmen into financial straits. 

International bi-metalism will soon be 
established. The nations will require both 
gold and silver as their money base hence- 
forth. 

* * * * 

Instances of the presumption of monar- 



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31 



chs, apart from the Turks, are where Alex- 
ander the Great, in 331 B. C. after his con- 
(luest of Asia Minor and the east and oF 
Egypt, visited the shrine of Ammon-Re in 
the Libyan desert, where tradition says the 
god acknowledged him as son, thereby giv- 
ing him divine title to succeed the Phar- 
r.ohs. 

The Ptolomies who succeeded Alexander 
had their idols and accepted worship of 
themselves as though they were divine. Ju- 
lius and Augustus Ceasar permitted the 
people to worship them as divine. 

And it is said the Kaiser claims partnership 
with God; that he, by divine appointment 
as the head of the German Empire, is to 
make the nations bow to his will. He start- 
ed out claiming to "reign by the grace of 
God," and asserted his divine right to rule 
in fact as well as in name. He uses the 
slogan "Forward with God," but at the same 
time he ignores the laws of God and the di- 
vine mandate to a king to obey such laws. 
The taking of human life by aggression 
seems to give him no concern whatever. 
His Innocence still declares his conscience 
is clear, his motives are pure and spotless. 
As Milton said. He hath stolen the livery 
of the Court of heaven to serve the devil in. 
He announces that he is the "Supreme War 
Lord." He is the leader of the Junkers, 
not their tool. He proclaims the German 
militarism to be invincible; and the Pan- 
German plan of conquest and consolidation 
?nd the proclamation that might makes 
right are a part of the diabolical 
program set out to be accomplished 
by himself, and his spawn, the Crown 
Prince, regardless of the sacrifice and 
suffering of his own people, and the death, 
misery and sorrow of the world at large. 
* ♦ * * 

Attention is directed to a certain crisis 
that occurred in the Turkish Empire. 

In 1908 the progressive and radical 
Young Turks set up a constitutional govern- 
ment at Adrianople and inaugurated a re- 
volution against the Sultan, Abdul-Hamid 
11. the Ottorman Empire, meantime, hav- 
ing suffered many reverses and lost exten- 
sively in dominion and prestige, indeed to 
such an extent that it had long been known 
as the "sick man of Europe," and had for a 
considerable time been on the verge of 
collapse. Arabia was in constant revolt. 
Arnachy reigned in Albania. A Macedonian 



upheaval in 1903 had led to foreign inter- 
vention; railways, banks and mines were 
passing into the hands of foreigners. Public 
debt was rapidly accumulating and a por- 
tion thereof was repudiated. Dissatisfac- 
tion with the Government on account of 
the arrears in pay was universal. Selling 
the higher offices in the government for a 
price and corruption in office was the rule 
of the day. Germany had been granted in 
1906 the rights and franchise for the Berlin- 
Bagdad Railway. Bosnia and Hersegovnia 
vvere boldly taken over by Austria, and 
Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria proclaimed 
complete independence and assumed the 
title of King or Czar. 

The Young Turks loudly heralded the 
principles of equality and liberty. In organ- 
izing their rebellion their Committee of 
Union and Progress, required a secret oath, 
binding the people to the overthrow of the 
Sultan, which was joined in by Moslems, 
Christians and Jews. They set up armed 
rr-sistance to authorities, soldiers were ask- 
ed not to fire on the people, the police and 
m.any officials were to strike; general 
strikes and refusal to pay taxes were part 
of the plan. 

Sultan Abdul-Hamil II., becoming alarm- 
ed surrendered his autocratic power and 
granted a constitutional monarchy in 1908. 
A few months later, however, he entered 
into a conspiracy to regain the autocracy, 
but the revolutionists marched against and 
captured Constantinople and deposed him 
April 25th, 1909. At the behest of the Young 
Turks, his brother, Mohammed V. was made 
successor; and the constitution, such as it 
was, very much after the order of the pre- 
sent German constitution, was adopted. It 
had, however, the following articles. 

All persons without distinction of race 
or origin shall enjoy personal liberty, and 
be equal as regards rights and responsibi- 
lities. 

Nobody shall be questioned, arrested, pun- 
ished or imprisoned without legal grounds. 
Domicile of all shall be inviolable. Censor- 
ship of the press abolished. Education free. 
Officials shall obey the law. No one shall 
le appointed to a post against his will. 

Although ostensibly to the world the au- 
tocracy of the Turk was overthrown and it 
was hoped the evils were to a large extent 
overcome, something then happened. The 
fine hand of the Kaiser appeared. 



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The constitution, when adopted provided 
for a parliament comprising a senate, who 
were appointed for life by the Sultan, and 
a chamber of deputies, chosen by Indirect 
election. Sheik ul of Islam, appointed by 
the Sultan, with the approval of the Moslem 
clergy, has the power of vetoing any imper- 
ial decree or parlimentary law by declaring 
it contrary to the sacred law: (The Koran, 
the product of Mohammed.) Hence actual 
reforms were nullified. 

It soon became apparent that Mo- 
hammed V. and the Young Turks had pol- 
icies of their own. They proceeded to m'ake 
the Turkish language official : to standarize 
education, plant Moslem colonies in Mace- 
donia; to utilize bribe in elections; to for- 
bid public gatherings, to repress anti-Otio- 
man agitation and to disarm the Macedon- 
ian Christian villagers. Taxes theretofore 
oppressively burdensome were increased on 
the ratio of 15 to 8. A law was passed re- 
quiring compulsory military training and 
service of Christians as well as Moslems. 
Meantime the organization of the army was 
being carried on by the German Military 
Commission, 



These with other things led to the out- 
break of the Balkan war in 1912-13, w^here- 
ir- Turkey lost Adrianople and all her hold- 
ings in Europe excepting the small territory 
around Constantinople. 

In January 1914 (note the date) the Turks 
required universal military training in her 
remaining territory, applicable not only to 
the Moslems but to Christians, and the 
powers of the German Military Commission 
were greatly amplified, even to the extent 
of placing the German officers in command 
of the Turkish troops. 

Foreigners had enjoyed extra territox^ial 
privileges guaranteed by a series of treat- 
ies called capitulations. In September 1914 
these were abrogated by Turkey. The Kais- 
er made an initial loan to the Turk of $40,- 
000,000.00, (later increased to $295,000,000.00 
and growing monthly,) turned to her cer- 
tain battleships, and Turkey closed the 
Dardennelles to the Commerce of the world, 
and, with her war vessels in command of 
German Officers, under the direction of 
Enver Pasha, minister of war, a vassal of 
Germany, sunk Russian ships without even 
the formality of a declaration of war. 



CHAPTER X. 
THE WORLD WAR. 
The Kaiser and the Turk as the King of the South; and Russia | 
and Her Allies as the King of th e North. ^ 



The king of the South heretofore has 
been recognized as the Turk, but after the 
league with the Kaiser and the outbreak 
of the European war the term will be ap- 
»>lied to the Central Powers under the 
!eadership of the Kaiser, and the king of 
the North, while heretofore as Russia, will 
hereafter be applied to Russia and her Al- 
lies: hence all the Great Powers became 
parties to the war under one or the other 
of these heads. 

Dan. 11: 11. "And the king of the South 
(the Kaiser) shall be moved with choler. 
(we recall Alexander the Great was moved 
with choler,) and shall come forth and fight 
with him, even with the king of the North, 
(Russia) tind he (Russia) "shall set forth 
a great multitude; but the multitude shall 
be given into his (the Kaiser's) hand." 
CThls fits well the overthrow and capture of 
the first Russian army.) 



U 



multitude, his (the Kaiser's) heart shall be 
lifted up, and he shall cast down many ten 
thousands : but he shall not be strengthen- 
ed by it," (he could not end the war as a 
victor.) 

13. "For the king of the North" (Rus- 
sia and her Allies) shall return, and shall 
set forth a multitude greater than the for- 
mer; and shall certainly come after certain 
years with a great army and with much 
riches. 14. "And in those times there shall 
many stand up against the king of the 
South." Is it not true? Nineteen coun- 
tries in all. 

"Also the robbers (the Turk) of thy peo- 
ple (Daniel's people, hence the Lord's peo- 
ple) shall exalt themselves to establish the 
vision, but they shall fall." 

15. "So the king of the North (the Al- 
lied Powers) shall come, and cast up a 
mount, and take the most fenced cities; 



12. "And when he hath taken away theil«and the arms of the South" (the Kaiser and 



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33 



tbe Turk) "shall not withstand, neither h!s 
chosen people" (the German people) 
"neither shall there be any strength to with- 
stand." 

16. "But he that cometh against him 
shall do according to his own will, and 
none shall stand before him: and he shall 
stand in the glorious land," (Misopotamia) 
"which by his hand shall be consumed." 
(Shall be taken.) England has taken 
Mesopotamia, including the "glorious city," 
Bagdad. 

17. "He" (the Czar) "shall also set his 
face to enter with the strength of his whole 
kingdom, and upright ones" (upright na- 
tions) "with him; thus shall he do." 

18. "After this shall he" (the Czar) "turn 
his face unto the Isles," (southward toward 
the Islands in the Meterranean) "and shall 
take many," (this* fits the capture by Rus- 
sia of a great many of the army of Austria- 
Hungary) "but a prince" (Prince Lvoff) 
"for his own behalf shall cause the reproach 
offered by him to cease." (It is a reproach 
to be an autocrat.) Without his own re- 
proach he shall cause it to turn upon him." 
(The Czar.) 

19. "Then he" (The Czar) "shall turn 
his face toward the fort" (the capitol) of his 
own land," (Petrograd,) "but he shall stum- 
ble and fall, and not be found." 

Could language more clearly portray the 
downfall of the Czar? 

21. "And in his" (The Turk's) "estate 
shall stand up a vile person, (the Kaiser) 
"to whom they shall not give the honor of 
the kingdom; but he shall come in peace- 
ably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries." 

In the fall of 1917 the Kaiser visited Con- 
stantinople, was banqueted by Mohammed 
and his Cabinet and generals and made 
Field Marshall of the Turkish Host. 

22. "And with the arms of a flood they" 
(the Armenians) shall be overflown from 
before him;" (the Turk with the German 
officers in command;) "and shall be brok- 
en." 

This, without doubt, applies to the Armen- 
ians and Greeks of whom, according to such 
reliable authorities as Bishops and mission- 
aries of our Protestant Churches, about Si-O. 
000 were massacred or driven out to perish 
with cold and starvation, and others made 
captives to degradation and shame, takin.;? 
the women as concubine slaves and pollut- 
ing them, and compelling them and their 



children to accept their corrupt religion. This 
abominable work was instigated by Enver 
Pasha, the minister of war, agent for the 
Kaiser, and by the Grand Vizier — the Pre- 
mier — under Mohammed V. The same prac- 
tice was later extended to Palestine. 80J0 
Serbian girls were kidnapped and trans- 
ported. 

"Yea, also the prince of the covenant.' 
This clearly relates to King Albert of 
Belgium; the covenant being that in which 
the neutrality of Belgium was guaranteed. 

23. "And after the league made with 
him" (the league between the Kaiser and 
the Turk) "he" (the Kaiser) "shall work 
deceitfully; for he shall come up and shall 
be strong with a small people." (Bulgaria.) 

While the war is progressing, the Bulgar- 
ian government having exhausted its treas- 
ury, is obtaining from the Kaiser 44,000,000 
marks monthly. He is also financing the 
war for Austria-Hungary and Turkey, which 
brings them tighter and tighter under his 
grip. 

While there is evidence that the people 
of these countries are suspicious of the 
Kaiser's encroachments on their sovereign- 
ty, and long to be freed from his domina- 
tion and oppression, their leaders are en- 
tangled in the net he has spread for them, 
and are helpless. It would seem the only 
hope for them is for the people to rise ap, 
reform their governments and terminate 
autocratic rule; then sue for peace and 
leaVe it to the Conference of the Nations, 
at which they vill, of course, have represen- 
tation, and to the World's Court to be form- 
ed, to gain for them protection henceforth 
on lines of fairness and equity along with 
all the other nations. It is recognized that 
peace, to be durable, must be based on fair 
and equitable provisions such as will com- 
mand the confidence of mankind. 

24. "He" (the Kaiser) "shall enter peace- 
ably upon the fattest places of the pro- 
vince; and he shall do that which his fath- 
ers have not done, nor his father's fathers; 
lie shall scatter am^ong them, the prey and 
the spoil, and riches. 

Germany has carried off great quan- 
tities of booty from the invaded terri- 
tories of Europe. Has robbed their treas- 
uries, exacted great sums of money, taken 
metals, machinery, railroad equipment, furni- 
ture and valuables from public and private 
buildings and taken over the mines and oil 



THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



fields, all done with the ruthlessness of a 
l-:ighway robber, and in a measure has di- 
vided the spoils with her allies. 



"Yea, he shall forecast his devices against 
the strongholds, even for a time." 



CHAPTER XI. 
The World War Continued. Germany Will Destroy the Kaiser. 



25. "And he" (the Allied Powers) shall 
stir up his power and his courage against 
the king of the South with a great army; 
and the king of the South shall be stirreo 
up to battle with a very great and mighty 
army, but he, (the Kaiser) shall not stand 
for they shall forecast their devices against 
him. 

26. Yea, they that feed of the portion of 
his (the Kaiser's) meat shall destroy him, 
and his army shall overflow; and many shall 
fall down slain." 

The Kaiser to an unprecedented degree, 
controls the distribution of food, and how 
pointedly this seems to set forth that the 
German people themselves will bring about 
his downfall. 

27. "And both these kings (the Kaiser's 
and the Turk's) hearts shall be to do mis- 
chief, and they shall speak lies at one table; 
but it shall not prosper; for yet the end 
shall be at the time appointed." 

The Kaiser awarded the Iron Cross to the 
Turk and the Turk in turn bestow^ed his 
highest medals and valuable presents upon 
the Kaiser. The banquet was served and t>e 
awards were made at the Kaiser's first vis- 
it. 

28. "Then shall he (the Kaiser) return 
ic his land with great riches; and his heart 
shall be against the holy covenant; (the 
covenants entered into by the nations at 
the Hague; the treaties between countries 
to which Germany was a party ; the recog- 
nized rights of nations and persons under 
International law. What covenants between 
man and man could be more sacred than 
these?) and he shall do exploints and re- 
turn to his own land. 

29. At the time appointed, he shall re- 
turn and come toward the South; but it 
shall not be as the former, or as the latter. 

30. For the ships of Chittim (the ships 
of the Allied Countries, as of that time, Eng- 
land, Russia, France, Italy and Japan) shall 
come against him; therefore he shall be 
grieved, and return, and have indignation 
against the holy covenant: so shall he do; 



he shall even return, and have intelligence 
with them that forsake the covenant. 

31. And arms shall stand on his part, ana 
they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, 
and shall take away the daily sacrifice;" 

"And they shall place the abomination 
that maketh desolate." 

Is not this the atrocious submarine war- 
fare? What scheme, pray, could have a 
trend for greater desolation than this: to 
annihilate the commerce of the world? Nev 
er has the great ocean highway of commer- 
ce been challenged after this fashion or on 
such a pondrous scale; a gigantic stroke of 
might, intended to subjugate all nations and 
peoples. 

32. "And such as do wickedly against the 
covenant shall he (the Kaiser) corrupt by 
flatteries; but the people that do know their 
God shall be strong and do exploits. • 

33. And they that understand amoag the 
people, (the statesman, the editors of our 
papers and periodicals, the ministers of the 
Gospel, the professors of our schools and 
colleges) shall instruct many; yet they shall 
fall by the sword, and by flame, by cap- 
tivity, and by spoil, many days. 

34. And some of them of understanding 
shall fall, to try them and to purge, (of their 
errors and sins) and to make them white, 
even to the time of the end; because it is 
yet for a time appointed. 

36. And the king (the Kaiser) shall lio 
according to his w ill ; and he shall exalt 
himself, and magnify himself above every 
god, and shall speak marvelous things 
against the God of Gods, and shall prosper 
till the indignation be accomplished, for 
that that is determined shall be done. 

37. Neither shall he regard the God of 
his fathers, nor the desire of (regard for) 
woman, nor regard any god; for he shall 
magnify himself above all. 

38. "But in his estate shall he honor 
the god of forces" — the Dragon — (disclosed 
in one form in the Prussian militarism, aim- 
ing to make the greatest organization with 
the highest possible efficiency, but devoted 



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35 



to evil. German kultur. High efficiency is, 
ot course, most commendable when devote d 
to good; and provided it does not result in 
the oppression of the people by strenuous 
work, long hours and small pay, child labor 
and the like, concerning which, however, 
the German masters have no scruples.) 
"And a god whom his father knew not shall 
he honor with gold, and silver, and with 
precious stones, and pleasant things." 
(Allah.) 

39. "And at the time of the end shall 
the king of the South push at him, and the 
king of the North, (Russia and her Allies, 
now increased by Portugal, the United 
States, Brazil, Cuba, Panama, China and 
others,) shall come against him like a whirl- 
wind, with chariots and with horsemen a:id 
with many ships; and he (the Allies) shall 
enter into the countries and shall overflow 
and pass over." 

41. "He shall enter also into the "Glori- 
ous land ;" (this already has been done,) and 
ruany countries shall be overthrown; but 
these shall escape out of his hand, even 
Edom, and Moab and the chief of the child- 
ren of Ammon." 

These lands, lying south east of the Dead 
Sea and east of the Jordan, are included in 
the present Arabia, which has thrown off 
the yoke of the Turk and is on friendly 
terms with the Allied Powers. 



42. "He (the Entente Allies) shall stretch 
forth his hand also upon the countries; 
(Jurusalem, for example, taken by the En- 
glish under General Allenby) and the land 
of Egypt shall not escape." 

The Suez Canal was the key to the .poli- 
tical development and the commerce of that 
region, and a matter of vital world interest, 
and in order to protect the world in iis 
equitable rights, as against the selfish de- 
signs of the Teutons and the Turk, England 
assumed the responsibility of the protection 
ot the Canal, and incidentally assumed a 
protectorate over Egypt. This -made ihe 
Kaiser howl, it is true, but 'tis done notwith- 
standing. 

43. "But he (the Allies) shall have pow- 
er over the treasures of gold and silver; 
and over all the precious things of Egypt; 
and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be 
at his steps." 

This is all true today. 

44. "But tidings out of the east and oat 
of the North shall trouble him (the Kaiser) 
therefore he shall go forth with great fury 
to destroy, and utterly to make away many. 

45. "And he (the Turk) shall plant the 
tabernacles of his palace between the seas, 
(at Constantinople, between the Black and 
the Mediterranean) in the glorious holy 
mountain. Yet he shall come to his end 
and none shall help him." 



CHAPTER XII. 



Collateral Subjects. Pending Reforms. 



The Suez Canal, controlled by the English 
and French capitalis'ts, has charged as toll 
since January 1, 1913, S^^ francs, or $1.63 
per net ton for loaded vessels, and 7 francs, 
or $1.35 for empty ships, and 10 francs, or 
§1.93 per passenger. 

There is no preferential treatment in its 
use in time of peace, and ships of all na- 
tions may employ it on equal terms. 

The United States ha sbuilt the Panama 
Canal at a cost of $375,000,000.00. Its toll 
charges are less than the former, and shall 
not exceed $1.25 per net ton. 

The United States has followed the ex- 
ample of England and France and grants 
the privilege of its use to the ships of all 
nations without discrimination. The same 
toll is paid by its coast-wise trade as is ex- 
acted from foreign owned vessels. Germany 



was extended the same privileges as other 
nations in the use of these canals, hence 
she certainly had no ground for complaint 
on this score. The Kaiser, however, pre- 
ferred to own these Canals and make the 
world's commerce pay tribute to him. 

Is it not apparent that the owners of these 
great highways of commerce, are respecUnj? 
the divine law: "Ye shall have one manner 
of law as well for the stranger as for one 
of thine own country." 

* * ♦ ♦ 

Napoleon said "Alexander, Ptolomey, Cae- 
sar and I built our empires on force, but 
Jesus Christ has built his kingdom on love 
and there are millions who would die tor 
Him today. 

* * * * 

International law, though heretoforo rec- 



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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



cgnized, has never had any court to deter- 
mine the rights of nations and persons, or 
any adequate power behind it to insHire en- 

torcement thereof. 

* * * * 

Under the reorganization of the Turkish 
army as of 1915 under German command, 
its war strength is estimated at approximate- 
ly 1,000,000 men. So impoverished is Tur- 
key that she would soon collapse were it 
not for the German support. Our Ambassa- 
dor, upon returning from Constantinople, 
reported the conditions in Turkey beyond 
description. On every hand is poverty, des- 
titution and starvation, the children espec- 
ially being the sufferers. 

* * * * 

CHURCH REFORMS. 

In the great upheaval the world is pass- 
ing through, not only are the governments 
under critical examination and test, but the 
searchlight is being turned upon the 
churches also, and it should result in burn- 
ing up the dross and retaining only tae 
pure gold. 

Dr. Jowett of the Fifth Avenue Presby- 
terian Church of New York, upon returning 
from England, said in substance: "Some of 
the tenants of our Protestant Churches 
are being challenged. Parents are asking 
us "what of our sons." Boys, perhaps,_ whose 
names do not appear on the church roll. 
'When a man gives his life for his country, 
and the principles for which it stands, 
shall it count for naught?" 

Is it not answered already in Christ's own 
words? "Greater love hath no man than 
this that he lay down his life for his 
friends." 

* * * * 

Peter and the other Apostles, inspired 
by the presence and teachings of Jesus, and, 
after his ascension, by the Holy Spirit; and 
Paul, through his awakening vision and the 
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, started the 
Christian Churches out in the right path. 
They plead with men to repent of their sins, 
and they taught redemption and regenera- 
tion, and that the Holy Spirit is present m 
the every day life of Christians as the abid- 
ing power and ground for their Christian 
work, the belief of which gives a peculiar 
enthusiasm and inspirational character to 
one's life. 

They saw in Jesus much more than the 
Jewish Messiah ; the Christ Divine who had 



come down from heaven to transform the 
lives of men, all of w^hom are sinners. 

That they should be born again, born iiito 
the spiritual kingdom of God. Thus Jesus 
had the same significance for one man as 
for another, color and caste being obliterat- 
ed, a Saviour for all who come to God in 
repentance. The transformed spiritual life 
of the believer expresses itself not only in 
obedience to the law, but in love, 
purity and peace. Theirs is not the 
every-day experience of ordinary men 
and women, but they have a vision 
in life, are on a loftier plane, and 
they are in a sense lifted out of themselves 
and transported into a higher sphere: 
hence it is tliat Christians are optimistic, 
irrepressibie, unconquerable. There is a 
buoyancy in their hearts, through their abid- 
ing faith that lifts them above every ob- 
stacle, no matter, for they know their trials 
at best are only temporary, and that u'.ti 
mate victory is assured. 

Such were the principles of the early 
Christian Church. Such is the plane on 
v.hich the Protestant Churches stand today. 
They live more in the joy of the Resurrec- 
tion than in the trials of the Cross. 

In the early centuries the Christian 
Church had five Patriarchs, (Bishops,) one 
f ach at Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, Constan- 
tinople and Jerusalem. When the Empire 
was divided, there was but one in the West- 
ern half, (the Bishop of Rome,) and thence- 
forth the Orthodox Eastern Church (the 
Greek Church) and the Roman Catholic 
C:hurch, each went its separate way. 

The Church at Rome in the 4th Century 
emerged into the infperial favor and was 
established as part of the organization of 
the Imperial Roman Empire, and the clergy, 
row Roman officials, vested in the robes of 
the civil dignitaries, took their seats where 
the magistrates w^ere wont to sit. In due 
time the Roman Catholic Church became a 
distinctly strong power, merged into the 
Roman Empire, as mentioned above, effect- 
ing first the union of Church and State, with 
the result that later on, the Pope as Poten- 
tate, gained the ascendency, and dominat- 
ed and exercised the temporary jurisdiction. 
When the Empire was cut up and divided 
into ten kingdoms, the Pope continued to 
exercise more or less jurisdiction over thcji, 
js the sovereign over the kings, the "King 
of Kings." 



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Indeed the Roman Catholic Church at one 
time claimed to be the "Kingdom of God on 
Earth" for it claimed to have broken the 
opposing kingdoms as the prophecies de- 
clared should be done; but this can hardly 
be true for the Church later lost its domin- 
ion, piece by piece, • while the monarchies 
and kingdoms still exist. 

Even if it were the desire to do so it is 
impossible this Church can ever regain tem- 
poral power; for it must be apparent that 
if the Kaiser with his organization, his 
army and navy and equipment, cannot 
dominate other people, the Pope, without :m 
army or a navy, or the power to levy taxes, 
cannot do so. 

The treasury of the Pope not so very long 
ago was said to have $8,000,000,00. It has 
been stated recently that under the stress 
of the times even this has been almost ex- 
hausted. England is spending $30,000,000, 
00 daily. 

The Catholics in America, France and 
elsewhere have responded to the call of 
tJieir nations in such fine spirit in the bat- 
tle for liberty and humanity, as to make a 
most striking contrast with the Catholics 
in Germany as shown by the following: 
* * * * 

GERMAN CATHOLICS ARE STANDING 
WITH THE KAISER. 

Washington, Nov. 25, 1917— An official 
German statement radiographed from the 
government station at Nauen says the Ca- 
tholic clergy of Germany (rejecting the 
principles of sovereignty of the people) 
have aligned themselves in support of the 
ruling house and the monarchic constitu- 
tion. 

The communication, received here today 
by cable, follows: 

"The German Bishops will read from the 
Episcopal throne this coming Sunday a pas- 
toral letter in which it is declared that the 
Catholics of Germany repel all attacks 
against the German ruling house and the 
monarchic constitution of the State. The 
Catholics should protect the throne against 
outside enemies and internal revolution. 
The bishops reject the sovereignty of the 
people which only brings other forms of in- 
equality and servitude and constraint of 
v/hich the world war- offers many examples." 

It would be a most welcome movement to 
the public at large if the American Catuo- 



ilcs could see their way clear to sever their 
connection with Rome, be democratic, free 
their clergy from the bonds of chastity — a 
matter of Church discipline — and permit 
such as so desire to marry, have homes and 
rear children in lawful wedlock, (Paul says 
"The Bishop must be blameless — the hus- 
band of one wife — ^not given to wine or fil- 
thy lucre; Tit. 1: 6-7,) organize on independ- 
ent lines, take over their property and rely 
on the American laws and courts to protect 
them. Such a step would meet with general 
approval. The need and opportunity for 
good works were never greater than now, 
and henceforth will be. 

* * * * 

It is a matter of extreme regret that Car- 
dinal Gibbons has announced his opposition 
tc the National Prohibition Amendment. It 
is of the greatest importance that the United 
States, the strongest Democracy in Uie 
World, shall take its stand for this princi- 
ple while the fight is on, and by the voice 
of the people, suppress this evil, and by ex- 
ample, encourage other nations to adopt the 
same. 

* * * * 

What of Purgatory? If ones name is in 
the Book of Life would the Lord, who is 
the Judge, send his beloved child to Pur- 
gatory? When the prodigal son returned 
did the father say, "What have you been 
doing with the money I gave you? You can 
now go and do penance by working with a 
ball and chain for six months." 

Ah! no. "Come ye blessed of my Father, 
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from 
the foundation of the world." 

"Fear not, little flock it is your Father's 
good pleasure to give you the kingdom." 

* * * * 

Let us divert to point out that "seven" re- 
presents the complete number in prophecy. 
"Seven days in the week;" "seven spirits 
before God's throne ;" "seven golden candle- 
sticks;" "seven Churches in Asia;" repre- 
sentative of all the Christian Churches; 
"seven stars;" "The mystery of the se^en 
stars and of the seven golden candlesticks ; 
the seven stars are the angels" (i. e., the 
ministers) "of the seven churches, and the 
seven candlesticks are the seven churches;" 
"seven spirits (or messengers) of God;" 
"A book sealed with seven seals;" "stood a 
Lamb" (Christ) "having seven horns and 
seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of 



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God, sent forth into all the Earth," "seven 
angels and to them were given seven trum- 
pets;" "seven kings" "seven last plagues 
(upon them who worship the Beast) for In 



them is filled up the wrath of God." 

Rev. 12: 3. "And I beheld a great P.ftd 
Dragon, having seven heads and ten horus 
?nd seven crowns upon his head." 



CHAPTER XIII. 
Nero Not the Beast With the Mystical Number 666, 



According to the Encyclopaedia Briianni- 
ca, (Vol. XXIII. p.p. 218) the International 
Encyclopaedia and others, the best solution 
offered to date by the Bible students in 
their endeavor to locate the Beast, (Rtv. 
Chap. 13), whose mystical number is 666, is 
Nero. 

It seems that four Continental scholars, 
Fritzsche, Benary, Hertzig and Reuss, in- 
dependtly discovered that if the word Nero 
be transliterated into Hebrew, and the sums 
denoted by the Hebrew letters be added to- 
gether, it makes 666, and from this premise 
tbey inferred that Nero was the Beast. 

This is a strained, far-fetched, an un- 
natural and inapt inference. They were 
grasping for a straw. It has not been satis- 
factory, nor is it generally accepted ; many 
preferring to wait for a better interpreta- 
tion. Nero's record does not fit the case in 
several ways. 

In the first place, Nero (the 5th Roman 
Emperor) died before the book of Revela- 
tion was written, as showm by the follow- 
ing list of the first seven emperors of the 
Roman Empire, with their periods of 
reign. 

Agustus Caesar was vested with absolute 
power for life 29 B. C. and this was the be- 
ginning of the Roman Empire, he being liie 
first Emperor. Agustus died 14 A. D. Je?-ns 
was born during his reign.- 

"There went out a decree from Agustus 
Caesar that all the world should be taxed." 
Lu. 2: 1. 

Tiberius Caesar, the second Emperor, re- 
igned from 14 to 37 A. D. he being on the 
throne during the period of the active work 
and crucificion of Jesus. Pontious PJlate 
v.as Governor of Judea under him. 

Caligula, the third, from 37 to 41 A. D. 

Claudius, the fourth, from 41 to 54 A. D. 

Nero, the fifth, from 54 to 68 A. D. 

Galba, the sixth, from June 68 to Jan. b9 
A. D. 

It was during Galba's reign and after the 
death of Nero, that Saint John wrote the 



Book of Revelation. For John said: R^v. 
17: 10. "And there are seven kings;" (ob- 
viously he was referring to the first seven 
Emperors of the Roman Empire, the fourth 
Beast of Daniel, under which he was living 
and under which all the events of Cbriai's 
first coming occurred) "five are fallen and 
one" (the sixth) 'Ms, and the other is yet to 
come; and when he cometh he must contin- 
ue a short space." 

The phrase "and one is" — now on the 
throne — fixes the date of the writing of tne 
Book as in 68 or 69 A. D. 

The seventh emperor was Vetellius, who 
reigned from January to December 69 A. D. 
(11 months.) Hence he continued but a 
short space, as prophesied. 

In the first verse of the first chapter of 
Revelation, John, it is shown, is to reveal 
things which must thereafter come to pass. 
Hence Nero is out of the race. 

While other emperors followed succes- 
sively, the fact that John mentions the first 
"seven," which typifies the complete num- 
ber, we may accept these seven emperors 
as representative of the entire Roman Em- 
pire. 

In the second: This Beast or its confed- 
erate put an embargo on the world's trade, 
which Nero did not do. 

In the third: One of the heads (emperors) 
of the first-named Beast was smitten to 
death, but he was supported by another 
Beast and healed of the death stroke. And 
Nero did not support any other, nor did 
another support him. 

In the fourth: Nero was an individual 
emperor, whereas the first Beast in this 
chapter "rose up out of the sea," i. e., out 
from among the people, "having seven 
heads and ten horns and ten crowns," in- 
dicating clearly that this Beast was an 
Empire with its many successive heads and 
kings. 

The simile is found in the words of Dan- 
iel (Dan. 7:3) "And four great Beasts came 
up from the sea, diverse one from another." 



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Each interpreted by the angel as a great 
kingdom or empire. 

Therefore the Beast having the mystical 
number of 666 was not Nero. We must 



search further. An interpretation is here- 
irafter given, which the reader is invited 
t'> analyze and determine whether it does 
not fit the case. 



CHAPTER XIV. 
The Two Beasts. The Turk and the Kaiser. 



Rev. 13:1. "And I stood upon the sands 
of the sea, and saw a Beast" (the Turkish 
Empire) "rise up out of the sea," (i. e., like 
the four World Empires of Daniel's pro- 
phecy from among the people of the earth,) 
"having seven heads:" 

In this case, the "seven heads" are seven 
Despots, seven Autocratic Rulers, as shown 
ia verse 3 where "one of the heads was 
wounded to death;" and again referred to 
in verse 14 as "wounded by the sword and 
did live;" as distinct from the "seven 
heads" on which the woman, Babylon, sit- 
teth, mentioned elsewhere, which are in- 
terpreted -by the angel as being "seven 
mountains." To wound a mountain with 
the sword would be an inconsistency; an 
absurdity. 

The complete number seven is here used 
which we may construe as representative 
of the whole Turkish Empire, even as the 
first seven emperors in the former con- 
nection were of the Roman Empire. 

"And ten horns, and upon his horns ten 
crowns." 

The ten horns having ten crowns obvi- 
ously relate to Turkish rulers of less pro- 
nounced power than the seven heads men- 
tioned; all did not attain the distinction of 
emperors. The ten horns and ten crowns, 
furthermore, matce a distinctive feature 
from the ten horns and seven crowns of 
Chap. 12:3, and Chap. 17, the point being 
that the latter references relate to still 
another beast, Babylon, in relation to the 
Roman Empire, while the first beast in 
Chapter 13 is the Turkish Empire; and the 
second Beast mentioned therein, who sup- 
ported the first Beast, clearly fits the case 
cf the Kaiser. 

Bible students have long recognized three 
great evils in Revelation, the Trio, but 
have been mystified, and it has necessi- 
tated the lapse of time and the appearance 
of the Kaiser in his present role to permit 
urilocking the door and locating each Beast 
and each evil in his proper sphere. (See 
Rev. 16: 13-14.) 



There is, however, a .fourth Beast set 
forth in the Book, which is the Dragon 
himself, that is, the one who in fact "as- 
cendeth out of the bottomless pit and goeth 
into perdition," who is the Red Dragon on 
which the woman sitteth, the specific words 
being "the Beast that carrieth her," thus 
supporting the false woman, Babylon, and 
the one who also gives his power to the 
Kaiser and the Turk. He, in fact, is the 
promoter and instigator of all the false re- 
ligions and isms, the one who deceiveth 
the whole world, the Beast that if wor- 
shipped in any form or manner brings to 
man his everlasting doom. 

2. "And the Dragon" (Satan) "gave him" 
(the Turk) "his power, and his seat, and 

great authority." 

* * * * 

The Devil is the Prince of this World, 

John 14: 30. Jesus said, "hereafter I 

vv'ill not talk much with you, for the Prince 

of this World cometh and he hath nothing 

in Me." 16:11. "Because the Prince of. this 

World is judged." 

* * * * 

Rev. 13:3. "And I saw one of the heads" 
(one of the autocratic rulers) "wounded to 
death." This, we believe, was Sultan Ab- 
dul-Hamid II. whose autocracy was over- 
thrown and he deposed in 1909, as hereto- 
fore set forth.) "And his deadly wound 
haaled"; (his brother, Mohammed V., is his 
successor, and supported by the Kaiser his 
authority and power is now restored,) "and 
all the world wondered after the Beast." 

That the "sick man of Europe" should 
recover, after his collapse, his been a 
marvel to all. 

4. "And they" (the Moslems and confed- 
erates) "worshipped the Dragon" (calling 
I'.im Allah) "which gave power unto the 
Beast and they worshipped the Beast" 
(i. e„ lauded the restored autocracy with 
all its sins) "saying, who is like unto the 
Beast?" (the Turk) "who is able to make 
v.-ar with him?" Germany was eloquent in 
averring, now that the Moslems had en- 



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tered the war with her countless millions 
in men, it would speedily result in victory. 

5. "And there was given unto him a 
n-.outh speaking great things and blasphe- 
mies; and power was given unto him to 
continue forty and two months," 

6. "And he opened his mouth in blas- 
phemy against God, to blaspheme His name, 
and His tabernacle, • and them that dwell in 
heaven." 

7. "And it was given unto him to make 
war with the saints" (the Armenians, 
Greeks, and others) "and to overcome 
them; and power was given him" (by 
Satan) "over all kindreds and tongues and 
nations." 

When we make comparisons we get the 
significance of this. The Moslems have 
221,000,000. Protestant Christians in all the 
world are but 171,650,000; the Eastern Or- 
thodox, 120,000,000, while the Roman Catho- 
lics claim 272,860,000. The Moslems are 
one of the most widely spread people in 
the world. They number twice the popula- 
tion of the United States, and 'the Sultan of 
Turkey assumes to be spiritual head of 
them all. This, however, is not conceded 
by all the Moslems. Observe, please, the 
word employed is power, not dominion. 

"And all that dwell upon the earth shall 
worship him (the Dragon) whose names are 
not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb, 
slain from the foundation of the world." 

That Satan craves to be worshipped as 
God is revealed in Mat. 3. 

"All these things will I give thee, if thou 
wilt fall down and worship me." 

"Then said Jesus unto him, 'Get thee 
hence, Satan, for it is written: Thou shalt 
worship the Lord thy God, and Him only 
Shalt thou serve.' " 

* * * * 

Rev. 13:9. "If any man have an ear let 
him hear. 

10. He that leadeth into captivity shall 
go into captivity ; he that killeth with the 
sword must be killed with the sword. Here 
is the patience of the saints." 

This clearly forecasts the Turkish de- 
siruction. See Rev. Chap. 19, 
* * * * 

11. "And I beheld another beast (the 
Kaiser) coming up out of the earth; and he 
had two horns (i. e., two despotic rulers, 
two autocracies, Germany and Austria- 



Hungary) like a lamb, and he spake as a 
dragon." (As a devil.) 

Here is a most striking simile: In Dan- 
iel's vision there appeared "a ram having 
two horns," which Gabriel interpreted "the 
two horns are the kings of Media and Per- 
sia." (Dan. 8:3.) While here in the vision 
of Saint John we have "a beast that had 
two horns like a lamb," which we may 
safely interpret as the kings of Germany 
and Austria-Hungary. 

12. "And he exerciseth all the power of 
the first Beast (the Turk) before him, and 
causetli the earth and them which dwell 
therein to worship the first Beast, whose 
deadly wound was healed. 

13. And he doeth great wonders, so that 
le maketh fire to come from heaven on the 
earth in the sight of men." 

The Zeppelin raids. It is said that when 
Count Zeppelin had perfected and proven 
Qie machine, the Kaiser awarded him the 
Iron Cross, rejoiced greatly and declared 
l:o would destroy the English fieet with it 
arjd then make the world pay tribute to 
him. 

14. "And deceiveth them that dwell on 
tiie earth by means of those miracles which 
he had power to do in the sight of the 
Beast, saying to them that dwell on the 
earth, that they should make an image to 
the Beast which had the wound by the 
sv.ord, and did live." 

Keep in mind, please, this Beast was the 
Turkish Autocracy which had been over- 
thrown but restored to the rank of a Des- 
potic Power by the support of the Kaiser, 
under the reign of Mohammed V., the pres- 
ent Sultan, who claims to be in the stead 
of Allah; the false god; or rather let us 
say, the Dragon, Satan. We will assume, 
therefore, that this image, or likeness, or 
representative, is none other than Moham- 
med v., who now speaks with authority as 
of old. 

15. "And he (the Kaiser) had power *o 
give life unto the image of the Beast (Mo- 
hammed V.) that the image of the Beast 
should both speak, and cause that as many 
as would not worship the image of the 
Beast should be killed"; (i. e., kill all in- 
fidels; all not of the Moslem faith.) 

16. "And he (the Kaiser) causeth all, 
both small and great, rich and poor, free 
and bond, to receive a mark (i. e., a means 
of identification) in their right hand, or in 



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41 



their foreheads. 

17. And that no man might buy or sell, 
save he that had the mark, or the name of 
the Beast or the number of his name. 

18. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath 
understanding count the number of the 
Beast; for it is the number of a man; and 
his number is six hundred three score and 
six." 

* * * * 

Let us get our bearings as a basis from 
which to arrive at the meaning of the last 
three verses. The world is witnessing that 
which has no precedent in history. An 
atrocity never dreamed of heretofore, in 
this nefarious submarine warfare. An 
audacious and wicked thing. The Kaiser 
has undertaken to dominate the seas. Only 
certain ones, according to his imperial de- 
cree, can float their merchant ships; can 
buy or sell. Those to whom he would grant 
the privilege are the people of Germany, 
of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey; 
the latter, of course, so far as his restric- 
tion goes, to embrace those of the Moslem 
laith; and he desires to distinguish the peo- 
pie of the Central Powers from all others. 

There is a peculiar significance in the 
fact that this mark was to be received in 
the right hand, and that we naturally re- 
ceive things in our right hand. The key to 
tills appears in Rev. 5:1. "And I saw in 
the right hand of Him that sat on the 
throne, a book written within and sealed 
with seven seals," also in 2:2. "These things 
saith He that holdeth the seven stars in 
His right hand." Therefore this mark is 
something that can be held in the right 
hand. 

The mark to be received in the right 
hand is the flag of the nation: the nation, 
for instance, whose vessel sails at sea. 
Every vessel carries its mark. An Ameri- 
can vessel, the Stars and Stripes; an Eng- 
lish, the Union Jack; so the vessel to be 
given his protection must be marked by 
one of the flags of the Central Powers. 

A certain cartoon in a New York paper 
illustrates the point. It shows the Kaiser 
and Uncle Sam. The former said, "Mark 
your merchant ships so and so and you 
may go to Falmouth one day in the week." 



Uncle Sam replied, "And you may go to 
hell seven days in the week." 

Another instance is where the Imperial 
German Government, after having sunk 
certain ships, advised the Argenitne Re- 
public that her flag on vessels carrying 
food stuffs only, would entitle her to the 
privilege of the high seas for certain re- 
stricted paths of travel, and that her ships, 
subject to the restrictions imposed, would 
not be sunk. 

4f * * m 

The mark to be received in the forehead 

(the revised version reads on the forehead) 
is clearly the German helmet used by the 
armies of the Central Powers, the mark 
that distinguishes her soldiers from those 
of the Entente Allies. 

And, praise the Lord, the soldiers of the 
Allied Powers also have their insignia on 
the forehead which distinguishes them 
f^om the Devil's own, and the people in all 
londs are lining up for the cause of the 
Lord of Hosts, and Alleluia, Glory be to 
God and to the Lamb, their names are 
written in the Book of Life. 
* * * * 

"The name of the Beast, or the number 
of his name." 

The name of the Beast (of the Autocra- 
cy) is, in this case. The Turkish Empire. 
And the number of his name is 666. (See 
Chart II, Chapter XV.) 

Heretofore it is set forth that the Mo- 
hammedan era in use by the 220,000,000 
Moslems began A. D. 622. And that Osman 
I., the founder of the Turkish Power, the 
most erratic and brutal branch of the Mos- 
lems, assumed his authority in A. D. 1288. 
Deducting the former from the latter, we 
have 666; the number of years that had 
expired from the dawn of the Mohamme- 
dan era to the dawn of the Turkish Em- 
pire. Even as Anno Domini 1776 was the 
year of the birth of our nation, likewise a 
count of 666 years from the beginning of 
the Mohammedan era brings us to the year 
of the birth of the Turkish Empire. There- 
fore, the number is the number of a man 
and the number of his name is six hundred 
three score and six.* 



♦The Enc. Brit, sets forth that Osman I. after ascending to power in 1288 A. D. carried on wars 
of conquest and that the Turkish historian usually dates 1300 A. D. the date when the Seljunkian 
crnpire crumbled, as the foundation of the Ottoman empire. From this date, until his death in 
1326 he reigned as an absolute monarch. But in its relation to prophecy, ive feel it is altogether 
apt, inasmuch as Osman I. is recognised as the founder of the Empire, to accept the date he ascend- 
ed to power, 1288 A. D. as the date of the Birth of the Turkish Empire. 



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To the Reader: 

While the author presents the following 
v.jth great modesty, in order to set forth 
a trend of logic that seems to harmonize 
-vvith the prophecies, he submits certain 
charts with explanations and comments, 
and invites you to check them up and carry 
forward the study in your own way, and 
correct the interpretation where errors may 
seem to you to occur. 

It will be recalled Jesus said "Simon Peter, 
lovest thou me?" "Yea, Lord, thou know- 
est that I love thee." "Feed my sheep." 
Again, "Simon Peter, lovest thou me?" 
"Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee." 
"Feed my sheep." Again, "Simon Peter, 
Icvest thou me?" and Peter was grieved 
because He said the third time, lovest thou 
me. "Thou knowest all things. Lord; thou 
knowest that I love thee." "Feed my 
lambs." 

We can all see how this reiteration im.- 
pressed the subject much more forcibly 
upon Peter, and indeed, upon all who read 
the same, than if a single injunction, "Feed 
my sheep, had been given. The reitera- 
tion, therefore, was for a purpose. 

Now in the prophecies, whether by 
Ezekiel, Zechariah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Dan- 
iel, Christ or Saint John, the happenings to 
come are not presented in consecutive order 
so as to run along smoothly, but are dis- 
connected and much broken up, indeed, in 
such a manner as to cause surprise. A sub- 
ject will be mentioned with a few sweep- 
ing statements to a conclusion; then a shift 
to another subject, then a return to the 
first, elucidating it; again dropped, and 
later another return, with still further eluci- 
dation. We are not to be surprised, then, 
when sudden interruptions and interpola- 
tions occur, but we must endeavor to locate 
the subjects in their proper relation to one 
another as a whole, very much as children 
do when assembling their blocks with let- 
ters of the alphabet so as to form words 
and sentences; and when we are able to 
so group them together, lo, we discover 
that which was a meaningless mystery is 
easily comprehended; indeed, so that even 
the "babes and sucklings," or the children, 
and the unlearned can readily understand 
the meaning, where the learned, even the 



CHAPTER XV. 
The Second Coining of Christ. 

Doctors of Divinity, may, perchance, have 
failed. 

This reiteration, when we take the pains 
to group together all the references bear- 
ing upon the subjects, not only makes them 
self-explanatory, but gives far greater em- 
phasis than any single averment of the sev- 
eral events in consecutive order might do. 
And, indeed, by comparing all the state- 
ments of all the prophets bearing thereon, 
it is found they corroborate one another 
with surprising adaptability, all of which 
confirms their Divine inspiration. 

What a Joy it would be if we could be 
translated Into glory even as Enoch and 
Elijah were and lay down all the trials 
and burdens of life. Oh, what a rapturous 
joy this would be! 

We can rejoice and be glad that the 
promise of Christ is, after announcing the 
world war Is to come, that "This generation 
shali not pass till all these things be ful- 
filled." These things, what things? Why, 
the world war and its termination; the 
Coming of Christ In the clouds to deliver 
His Church; the 42 months that Christ and 
the Church are absent in Paradise; during 
which time the Two Witnesses (possibly 
Enoch and Elijah) shall prophesy, and the 
seven woes, the seven last plagues which 
fill up the measure of the wrath of God, 
shall be sent upon the rebellious ones who 
have been left on earth when the followers 
oF Christ are taken therefrom. 

At the end of the 42 months after His 
coming in the clouds, Christ will come to 
the earth, even to Jerusalem, to begin his 
reign of one thousand years as the King 
of Kings and Lord of Lords, the acknowl- 
edged Sovereign of all the rulers of the 
earth. 

All these things it is prophesied shall 

happen In this present generation. "Watch 

ye, therefore, and be ready, for ye know 

not the hour when your Lord doth come!" 

THE AUTHOR. 



Supplement 

Let us concede certain things in our in- 
most hearts in order to sweep aside all 
doubts and follies and get our true bear- 
ings. 

First: That God is good: truly a God of 



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love. 



Second: That having given life to man, 
It is altogether within His province to take 
it away, or to permit man's enemy to take 
it away, whether in infancy, youth, matur- 
ity or advanced age. This life must be 
closed up in order that a better life may 
begin. 

Third: That it is not for us to attempt 
to judge our fellowmen as to their future 
state, although we may be permitted to 
make exceptions in extreme cases of arch- 
fiends, like the Kaiser and the Turk. 

Fourth: That the miracles, as recorded 
in the Scriptures and confirmed by Christ's 
words, are true; and that God is able to 
do supernatural things. When we consider 
the universe with its myriads of heavenly 
bodies, all moving under governing laws; 
when we consider that of all the millions 
of faces of the human family, each has its 
distinctive features, no two are the same, 
what folly for mere man to attempt to 
place any limitation on God's infinite 
power! 

Fifth: That such parts of the Scriptures 
as are not merely historical are of divine 
inspiration, and that, while some slight 
errors may have occurred in their trans- 
lation and printing, the fundamentals are 
correct and sufficient light is given for 
man's salvation. 

Sixth: That Satan is a reality, a person- 
ality, a live wire, an active enemy of God 
and man, and that he and his angels are to 
be overcome, are to be utterly destroyed. 

Seventh: That whereas, the prophecy In 
Lu. 1:30-31, was literally fulfilled, to-wlt: 
The Angel said, 'Fear not, Mary, for thou 
hast found favor with God; And, behold, 
thou Shalt conceive in thy womb and bring 
forth a son and shalt call his name Jesus,' 
It is sound and logical to concede that the 
two score or more prophecies made by 
Christ Himself and others that He will come 
in the clouds with power and great glory 
and catch up His elect and translate them, 
will also be literally fulfilled. 



Furthermore, we should recognize that 
all Christians in partaking of the Holy 
Communion await the Lord's coming. "As 
often as ye shall eat this bread and drink 
this cup ye do show the Lord's death till 
He come." 

If Christ and the prophets prophesied that 
a world war would come In the latter days, 
and it is now upon us, why entertain a 
single doubt as to the other things that 
are prophesied by Him and by them to fol- 
low? 

Eighth: That the Atonement of Christ 
accomplished certain things. Whereas, be- 
cause of Adam's sin two classes of penal- 
ties, A and B, fell upon mankind: A. Man 
was brought under the curse that falls upon 
the body which is present with us today. 
He must earn his bread by the sweat of his 
brow; woman must bring forth children in 
travail; our plans and work are hampered 
and marred by obstacles ; we are subject to 
anxiety, trouble, disease germs and death: 
And B. Furthermore, the death of the soul; 
the Atonement did not redeem man from 
A, but it did afford a conditional redemption 
from B. 

Life's troubles under A are greatly mul- 
tiplied and intensified beyond what they 
need of necessity be, by our own mistakes, 
follies and sins, and those of others. This 
war, for instance, need not have been. 

But now man's future state is relieved 
from connection with Adam's sin. He is 
held accountable for his own wilful acts. 
If he rejects Satan and responds to the 
promptings of the Holy Spirit, he is given 
immortality and a joyous life; otherwise, 
his doom will follow. 

In that sense Jesus Christ tasted death 
for every man; all have been redeemed. 
But man, by persistent, wilful sinning, can 
undo the work. 

Heb. 2:14. "He also himself took part In 
flesh and blood, that through death He 
might destroy him that had the power of 
death, that Is, the devil." Destroy the 
Devil. 




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EXPLANATION OF CHART II 



C. Extends from tlie Beginning of the 
Christian Era to the Millennium. In this 
Era most important events have happened, 
and others still more inportant are yet to 
happen. 

D. Represents the Millennial period of 1000 
years. 

E. The short period following the millennial 
period when the Devil is released. 

F. The New Heaven and the New Earth 
which follows the final judgment. 

G. The Gospel Age. This extends to Fl, 
the End of the World. 

IL The period of the Law. This extends 
from the Law of Moses to the End of the 
World. 

Christ said"until earth and heaven pass 
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass 
from the Law." 



04. 1776 A. D. The Birth of the United 
States of America. The Declaration of In- 
dependence was the finest promulation of 
the rights and liberty of man ever yet set 
forth. This was an event of great impor- 
tance, not only to the people of the United 
States but to the world at large.. 



CI. The Beginning of the Christian Bra. 

C2. 622 A. D. The Beginning of the Mo- 
hammedan Era. Mohammed, the founder of 
the Moslem or Islam faith, the counterfeit 
religion, makes his flight from Mecca and 
sets up temporal and spiritual power at Me- 
dina. Mohammed and succeeding Galiphs 
and Sultans being the False Prophet of Pro- 
phecy. This is the one who declares that 
Allah, their god, has no offspring, and there- 
fore denies the divinity of Christ. 



C3. 1288 A. D. The Birth of the Turkish 
Empire. This Empire is the most irrational 
and murderous branch of the Moslems. Os- 
man I, or Othman, the founder thereof as- 
cends to Power. He assumed both temporal 
and spiritual power. He coined money in 
his own name. He was surnamed Ghazi; i. 
e., the conqueror. He possessed Jerusalem, 
overran all the Northwest of Asia Minor. 
Imperial succession in the Turkish Empire 
to the present time vests in the older mem- 
ber of the House of Othman; Mohammed V, 
the present encumbent, being a direct de- 
cendant. 

The Turkish Empire, the first Beast of 
Rev. Chap. 13, having its birth 666 years 
after the dawn of the Mohammedan Era, 
is the Beast of prophecy with the mystical 
number 666. The name being the Turkish 
Empire, and 666 being jthe number (of 
years) thereof. 



C5. 1888 A. D. The Birth of the German 
Beast. In this year the league was entered 
into between the two Despotic Heads, the 
Emperor of Germany and Emperor Francis 
Joseph of Austria-Hungrary, which compose 
the second Beast mentioned in Rev. 13. 
This Beast had "two horns like a lamb," 
and makes a most striking simile with the 
Beast in Dan. 8:3, that had "two horns 
like a ram," which Gabriel interpreted as 
Media-Persia, "and the two horns are the 
kings of Media and Persia." 

This Beast supported the first and is the - 
one who decrees that none shall buy or J 
sell except they receive his mark in their 
right hand or his mark on their forehead. 



C6. 



?A. D. The Battle of the War 

in Heaven; (i. e., the Lower Heaven, Para- 
dise.) We believe that certain restricted 
portions of Paradise, as well as the Earth, 
had been occupied by Satan and his angels 
until just before the World War. He had 
been cast out of the Third Heaven, God's 
dwelling place, long before; for Christ said, 
Lu. 10:18, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall 
from heaven." In this battle, though not 
within the sight of man, Michael and his 
angels fought against the Dragon and his 
angels and they were cast out into the 
earth.. Rev. 12: 7-13, Dan. 12:1. 

We must keep in mind that the 
happenings in John's prophecy are all 
to come to pass after the Book was 
written, viz: 68-69 A. D. It is clear- 
ly indicated by both Daniel and John 
that this great battle should take place 
shortly before the beginning of the great 
war, and that immediately thereafter Satan 
was permitted to take peace from the earth. 
Rev. 6: 4. 16: 13-14., 16. 



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against Democracy, of the Crescent against 
the Cross; the Battle of that Great Day of 
God Almighty. 



? A. D. The End of the War. 



C8. 

Time is not definitely known. 

"From the time the abomination that 
maketh desolate is set up there shall 
be a thousand two hundred and ninety 
days," Dan. 12:11. This we think may refer 
to the end of the war, or to the loss of do- 
minion by the Kaiser. The submarine war- 
fare began Feb. 18th, 1915, as heretofore 
stated. If the submarine ^warfare is the 
abomination that niaketh desalace, it indi- 
cates the Kaiser will meet with his collapse 
on or about August or September, 1918. 



?A. D. Christ Comes in the 



C9. 

Clouds to Deliver the Church. "At that time 
thy people shall be delivered, every one 
whose name Is found written in the Book." 
Dan. 12:1. They will be translated even as 
Enoch and Elijah were, and the rebellious 
ones left behmd. The Woman, (i. e., the 
True Woman in countradistinction with the 
False Woman mentioned elsewhere,) the 
Church is spoken of as being carried into 
the wilderness, (a hiding place,) where she 
hath a place prepared for her by God, that 
they should feed her a thousand two hun- 
dred and three score days. (42 months or 
ZV2 years, 3^/^ being one half of 7, the com- 
plete number.) Elsewhere Christ said "To 
him that overcometh will I give to eat of 
the tree of life, which is in the midst of the 
Paradise of God." And again, "The leaves 
of the tree are for the healing of the na- 
tions." That is, the healing of the people of 
the nations. Therefore, this abode for the 
Church is, we believe, no other than Para- 
dise. Rev. 12: 1-2, 6, 13-14. 

The time for the happening of this great 
event is not known. It is to occur we be- 
lieve at sometime following the fall of the 
Turk and the loss of absolute power or do- 
minion by the Kaiser, which of course 
means the end of war. At its conclusion 
they are doomed to the lake of fire and to 
remain in torment during and beyond the 
thousand years to the day of judgement. 

The coming of Christ in the Clouds is 
mentioned repeatedly as a coming like a 
thief in the night, that is to say, it will take 
the masses of people unawares. Christ said, 
as in the days of Noah, people shall be 



marrying and given in marriage, yea, men 
will be carrying on their business and daily 
work in the customary \\ay, Paul said, 
"But ye, brethren, are not in darkness that 
that day should overtake you as a thief in 

the night. Ye are the children of light 

therefore let us watch and be sober." 

Jesus said. Mat. 24: 7-8. "Nation shall 
rise up against nation and Kingdom against 
Kingdom; and there shall be famines, and 
pestilences, and earthquakes in divers 
places. 8. All these are the beginning of 
sorrows." 

But there are certain further signs follow- 
ing the war, apparently not far distant 
therefrom, which, it is prophesied by Christ, 
shall come, that should command the earn- 
est attention of every one. 

Mat. 24: 29-30. Immediately after the tri- 
bulation of those days shall the sun be dark- 
ened, and the moon shall not give her light, 
and the stars shall fall from heaven and 
the powers of heaven shall be shaken, and 
then shall appear the sign of the Son of 
man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes 
of the earth mourn" (mourn because their 
friends and kindred are taken away) "and 
they shall see the Son of man coming in 
the clouds of heaven with power and great 
glory." 

Then follows most significant words. "Now 
learn a parable of the fig tree. 32. When his 
branch is yet tender and putteth forth 
leaves, ye know that summer is nigh." 

33. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all 
these things, know that it is near, even at 
the doors." 

Note the verb IS. This represents the 
present tense. 

34. "Verily I say unto you, this genera- 
tion" (also in the present tense) "shall not 
pass, till all these things be fulfilled." 

The record in Matthew is fully corroborat- 
ed by Mark and Luke. Mar. 13, Lu. 21. Luke 
said "When these things begin to come to 
pass" (the signs in the sun, moon and stars, 
etc.) "then look up, and lift up your heads, 
for your redemption draweth nigh." 

In each of the three after laying the pre- 
mise as In the present time, there appear 
the words "This generation shall not pass," 
etc. 

In Daniel 11 and 12 the deliverance is 
also closely related to the war. 

We should all rejoice that this great 
event is so near at hand, and we should do 



THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM 



47 



as Paul says, "wherefore comfort one anoth- 
er with these words." We should not, how- 
ever, allow it to draw us away from per- 
forming our full duty and the work in hand 
from day to day. 



Dl. The Beginning of the Millennium. 
"Thy Kingdom Come." Forty two months 
after Christ comes in the clouds, for the 
Church, He returns to earth and brings His 
Church with Him. Acts 1:9-11. "And when 
He had spoken these things, while they be- 
held He was taken up; and a cloud received 
Him out of their sight, and while they look- 
ed steadfastly toward heaven as He went 
up, behold two men stood by them in white 
apparel: which also said, ye men of Galilee, 
why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This 
same Jesus, which is taken up from you 
into heaven, shall so come in like manner 
as ye have seen Him go into heaven." 

This does not indicate His coming in the 
clouds. His coming for the church, but that 
He will return to earth. He now comes 
again and enters upon His millennial reign. 
Rev. 5:12. "And hast made us unto our 
God kings and priests, and we shall reign 
upon the earth; elsewhere, ''We shall reign 
with Him one thousand years;" "And His 
feet shall stand in that day upon the mount 
of Olives, which is before Jerusalem." 

During this period of one thousand years, 
Satan is confined in the bottomless pit, 
(hell) to which place the Beast and the 
False Prophet shall have been previously 
sent; the specific words being "where the 
Beast and the False Prophet are," and the 
people are free of temptation. 



El. The End of the Millennium. At the 
end of the period, Christ and the Church 
again ascend to Paradise, and Satan is re- 
leased for a short time, and the people are 
subjected to the test, and under Satan's 
temptation those who are wicked again 
make war on the saints. 



PI. The End of the World. Christ comes 
in vengeance and utterly destroys Satan, 
the Beast, the False Prophet and the wick- 
ed in final judgement. This enables us to 
read Mat. 25:31-46 Intelligently. 



F. The Great White Throne. The New Heav- 
en and the New Earth; all that are opposed 
to God having passed into oblivion. There 



will be nothing else that can happen to 
cause trepidation or fear. No indignities, 
no humiliations, no further disappoint- 
ments; nothing to offend; no sickness or 
death. 

* * * * 

A Parable 

Earth Hath No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot 
Cure. 
Some of our readers who have been al- 
most overwhelmed with their peculiar trials, 
may question the above averment. But we 
must have abiding faith. Not only faith but 
absolute trust and confidence in God's good- 
ness and love. 

Two men in early manhood were boon 
companions. They loved each other. Later, 
due to change of residence, they separated. 
One married, had a son, was a member of 
a Prostestant church and was happy. Then 
a panic came bringing its reverses, and his 
v/ife and son, needing a milder climate, went 
to another State, where by her efforts she 
contributed to the living, but he, feeling 
his means of subsistence lay better in the 
place where he was known, remained and 
he had a lonely life. His health failed; he 
became discouraged; he sought some so- 
lace in drink, and as the disappointments 
crowded thick and fast, lost heart and took 
his own life. 

Imagine he were on trial as to his future 
state, a Just and Sympathetic Judge presid- 
ing. 

Satan, the accuser, sneers and says, "Ha, 
what a hypocrite he was? He pretended to 
be a Christian. Bah, what a fist he made of 
it? He drank; was a failure; was a coward; 
took his own life. He is not entitled to any 
honor. Let him be condemned." 

A defender pleads, "Most Noble and Hon- 
ored Judge. This man was my friend, and 
he was such a true friend. As Jonathan 
loved David so loved I him. His parents 
were Christians and prosperous during his 
youth. His father authorized an employee 
to sign his name. The employee, tempted 
by this accuser here, betrayed the trust, in- 
volved him in debt, which almost swept 
away his estate. This was followed by the 
death of the beloved father, and then by 
his mother, who had been all in all to the 
boy. His college career was cut short mid- 
way. He started in business in a new place, 
with limited means, was honorable, indus- 
trious and moderately successful. He mar- 



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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



ried, united with the church of his parents, 
and hoped to see the coming of the Lord 
in his day. He had it in his heart to do the 
Avill of God. The panic came with its rever- 
ses. This was followed by nerve-racking, 
long protracted litigation, that impaired 
his credit. These trials with broken health 
made him despondent. 

This panic was initiated by Satan and 
precipated by his greedy and self-willed 
agents. He it was also who deceived the 
states and nation into the adoption of the 
cumbersome court procedure, which long 
defers the obtaining of justice, and encum- 
bers it with enormous expense and costs. 
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." It 
was he who misled the people into the man- 
ufacture and sale of strong drink. Satan, 



finding this man in his extremity, tempted 
him to drink, to which he yielded to some 
extent. Sick, chagrined, humilated, disap- 
pointed at every turn, heart-sick, in despair, 
not caring to be a burden to others, he 
ended his earthly career." 

Can we not hear the Judge say in open 
Court, "Satan, he is an heir of the Crown, 
you drove him to distraction, we are pre- 
paring a mansion for him." 

"Beloved, enter thou into the Paradise 
of God. Thy friends await to greet thee. 
Drink freely of the living w-aters of life, 
?nd partake of the fruit of the tree of life 
v.'hich will heal thee. In due time thou shalt 
^nter into the fulness of joy awaiting thee. 
Thou art safe in thy new Inheritance." 



CHAPTER XVI. 
The Book of Revelation. 



The Book is a revelation made by God to 
Jesus Christ, Who through His angel made 
it known to John, the Apostle, for trans- 
mission to the churches. We know that 
all the study of the past has failed to solve 
many of the problems of the Book, but in 
the progress of events, may it not be pos- 
sible, with research and discovery, to bring 
forth new illuminations, and open up the 
mysteries, and thereby enter into the splen- 
did faith and the unconquerable hope that 
Saint John presents in the message given? 

The words of the message are the words 
of Christ Himself and are inviolable. 
m * * * 

Before proceeding, permit us to suggest 
that the reader select a good reference Bi- 
ble with a good concordance. Take a soft 
pencil and enter brackets in the white mar- 
gins with reference letters as hereinafter 
indicated ; thereby tying the passages up 
with the charts. We carry this through the 
Book of Revelation, and the 23rd and 24th 
Chapters of Matthew. The reader may ex- 
tend to other books at his pleasure. 

There appear to be seven visions. 

At the beginning of the 1st chapter enter 
1st vision; of the 4th chapter, the 2nd vis- 
ion; of the 11th the 3rd; of the 13th, the 
4th; of the 14th, the 5th; of the 17th, the 
6th; and of the 21st., the 7th vision. 

Enter brackets for the Chapters 4 and 5, 
and marginal note, John's vision of Para- 
dise just prior to C6. 



Bracket Chap. 6:1-3 including all of the 
first line and down to and including red 
in the second line of verse 4, and enter mar- 
ginal note C6. 

Another, the remainder of verse 4 and to 
and including 11, with note W. W. (World 
War.) 

12-17, Just before C9. 

Chap. 7: 1-8. Just before and during the 
World War. Those who are sealed. The 
elect. 9-17. C9 to Dl. 

Chap. 8: 1-5. Just prior to C9. 

6-13. C9 to Dl. 

Chap. 9:1. C6. Lucifer, Satan. 
2-21. C9 to Dl. 

Chap. 10: 5-6. Fl.— 7. Dl. 

Chap. 11: 1-14. C9 to Dl. 15-17. Dl. 18-19. 
Fl. 

Chap. 12: 1-2. The Church. W. W. 3-4. C7 
to C8. 5-6. C9. 7-10. C6. 11-13. C7 to C8. 14. 
C9. 17. C9 to Dl. Note: this remnant is the 
remant mentioned in Chap. 11:13. 

Chap. 13. C7 to C8. 

Chap. 14: 1-7. Dl to El. 8-11. C7 to Fl. 
12-13. C7 to C8. W. W. 14-21. Fl. 

Chap. 15. C9 to Dl. 

Chap. 16: 1-12. C9 to Dl. 13-14. C7 to C8. 
W. W. 15. C9. 16. C7 to C 8. W. W. 17-21. 
The last of the seven plagues, just before 
Dl. 

Chap. 17:1-7, prior to Dl. 8. Dl toFl. 9-18 
Rome. 

Chap. 18: 1-3. C9 to Dl. 4-7 prior to Dl 
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Chap. 19: 1-10. The marriage of the Lamb. 
Probably following Fl. 11-21. Prior to Dl. 

The same as the sixth woe; the sixth 
plague. 

Chap. 20: 1-3. Dl. 4. D. Last part 5 and 
b; D. 7-9. E. 10-15 Fl. 

Chaps. 21 and 22: F. The Great White 
Throne. 

* * * * 

Mat. 24. verse 2. Relates to the destruc- 
tion of Jerusalem which occured in 70 A. D. 

Enter bracket with note as above. 

16-20, the same. 

3. The disciples asked three questions. 

When shall these things be; the fall of 
.Jerusalem; the sign of Thy Coming, and of 
■ the E^nd of the World? 

6-8. W. W. 

14. D. This is the same subject as appears 
Rev. 14: 6-7. 

In verse 8 He said "Alf these things must 
come to pass but the end (i. e., the End of 
the World) is not yet." In verse 14, He said 
"After the Gospel of the Kingdom is preach- 
ed in ail the world for a witness unto all 
nations, then shall the End (of the world) 
come." This preaching of the Gospel there- 
fore takes place not only in the present time 
but also during the millennium. 
21-26.. W. W. 27-31. C9. 40-41 C9. 
50-51 C9. 

Mat. 25: 3-46. The Great Harvest; the 
Final Judgment. 

* * * * 

We suggest the reader, either alone or in 
company with a small group of friends, 
under a leader, shall again make a careful 
study of the Bible, and particularly of the 
Book of Revelation, in connection with the 
charts presented, and in line with the fol- 
lowing general outline. Bible studies in 
-mall groups, each having his reference 
Bible, pencil-marked as indicated, and a 
-ood concordance, may be made extremely 
interesting. As each member of the group 
catches the inspiration of it, he can take 
charge of other readings, and thus carry 
the good work on. It devolves upon us to 
drink in the true meaning as expressed in 
the solemn form in the Bible and then give 
it forth in simple words that may be readily 
understood, common in our day. 

The fact that there are seven visions, the 
complete number, is interesting. The mes- 
sage, furthermore, was sent to the seven 
churches, which, we are to understand, rep- 



resent all the Christian Churches in the 
world. The mystery of the message will 
not be finished until Christ comes to earth 
to inaugrate his millennial reign. 

Its prologue appears in Chapter 1: 1-19. 
We assume the reader hereof is now read- 
ing the Book of Revelation, pencil marked 
as indicated, not hurriedly, but analytically, 
in connection with the notes as follows: 
otherwise the notes will be unintelligible. 

His coming for the Church appears in 
V. 7: "Behold He cometh with clouds, (C 9 
Chart 11) and every eye shall see Him and 
they also which pierced Him: and all kin- 
dreds of the earth shall wail because of 
Him. Even so. Amen." 

Those who are left behind shall wail be- 
cause their friends and acquaintances and. 
kindred are taken from them. Other Bible 
references relating to C 9 are as follows: 
Zech. 12:10; John 19:37; I Thes. 4:13-18: 
II Thes. 1:7; Mat. 24:30; I Cor. 15:50-58; 
Mat. 24:27, 40-42; Lu. 21:27; Dan. 7:13; 
John 14:3, 17:24; Mar. 13:26-27; Dan. 12: 
1-2, "At that time thy people shall be de- 
livered. Every one whose name is found 
written in the Book." Rev. 12:1-2, 6, 13-14; 
Heb. 9:28; Acts 15:14; Rev. 3:21; Col. 3:4; 
John 21:22-23: I Jno. 3:2; Philip. 3:20-21. 

Acts 1:9-11 is a most interesting refer- 
ence. A careful analysis, however, leads 
the author to believe that this does not re 
fer to Christ's coming in the clouds for His 
Church, but to Christ's coming to the earth 
to reign, (D 1.) which it is believed will 
occur 42 months after C 9. This will bear 
careful study. 

V. 20. "The mystery of the seven stars 
which thou sawest in my right hand, and 
the seven golden candlesticks. The seven 
stars are the angels" (i. e., the ministers) 
"of the seven churches." Stars, later on, 
Vvhen referring to the Woman (the Church) 
as. having "twelve stars" relate to the 
twelve apostles. Elsewhere when in con- 
nection with "the host of heaven and the 
stars," the host of heaven means the armies 
fighting in the Lord's cause, whose names 
are written in the Book of Life; the host 
are the men, and the stars are the leaders 
or officers. 

Continuing, "And the seven candlesticks 
are the seven churches." 

The first vision embraces Chapters 1, 2 
and 3, in which Christ Himself sends a 
message to each of the seven churches, 



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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



through the minister thereof. It is also 
noteworthy that each church member is 
held personally accountable for his acts, 
and must stand or fall upon his own de- 
meanor. But most wonderfully thrilling 
promises are made to all who hold stead- 
fast. 

The second vision embraces Chapters 4 
to 10 inclusive. 

Chapter 4: Here John was given a vision 
or God's throne as set up in Paradise; and 
one (God) sat thereon. And round about 
the throne were four and twenty elders; 
these represent twelve for the twelve 
tribes of Israel, representative of the Jew- 
ish dispensation, and twelve for the twelve 
Apostles; and four beasts full of eyes be- 
fore and behind. The eyes represent intelli- 
gence, and the four beasts, we think, rep- 
resent the followers of God, those who 
responded to the call of the Holy Spirit 
and lived up to the best light they had in 
the Four Great World Monarchies. The 
representation, therefore, here presented, 
i3 world-wide. 

Chap. 5, "And I saw in the right hand of 
Him that sat on the throne (God) a book 
written within and on the back thereof, 
sealed with seven seals." 

Only the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the 
Root of David, the Lamb of God, had power 
to open the book and to loose the seals 
thereof. 

Two distinct things are here mentioned. 
Imagine a book, written within, and sealed 
with seven secure seals. The first essen- 
tial is to break the seven seals, and then 
to open up the Book. 

esting fact will be noticed. These the 
elders, the beasts and the multitude, were 
of those who have lived on earth, just as 

Interpolations occur. But a most inter- 
we are living, and they were redeemed by 
the Lamb of God from out of every kindred 
and tongue and people and nation. 

These, let us assume, are those persons 
who shall have died prior to, we will say, 
just before the outbreak of the world war. 
Children of God, who, like Abraham, Peter, 
Paul, Stephen and Lazarus, have passed 
through all the judgment they will ever be 
called on to pass through, and are in a state 
of bliss in Paradise, awaiting the happening 
of still other events, which are within the 
scope of John's revelation. 

It is somewhat difficult to locate the dis- 



tinctive line between Paradise (the place 
of abode of the righteous after death) and 
the Third Heaven, but we believe a careful 
inquiry will convince one that the one is 
distinct from the other. 

There are set forth Three Heavens. 

1. The Third Heaven, God's dwelling- 
place, and the dwelling-place of the angels 
as well. 

2. The universe, in which the sun, moon 
and fixed stars and other heavenly bodies 
are. 

3. The Lower Heaven; that surrounding 
the earth, which embraces the region of 
the atmosphere, the air we breathe, and ex- 
tends to what lengths and breadths we can- 
not now know. 

Let us try to allow the imagination to 
reach out and grasp the idea, though in- 
visible to us with the natural eye, that this 
is the Lower Heaven, Paradise, which is 
occupied by the host spoken of in Chap. 5. 
Originally, the word Paradise was applied 
to a garden or a park surrounding a royal 
palace. Let us also imagine that God, hav- 
ing infinite powder, has access to both the 
Upper and Lower Heavens, and comes at 
will into Paradise and brings angels with 
Him, and that Christ likewise does so at 
His pleasure. 

With this vision or idea in mind, let us 
study certain passages and see how they 
fit into the situation. 

Mat. 24:35, "Heaven (Paradise) and earth 
shall pass away ,but my words shall not 
pass away." 

This heaven canot refer to God's dwelling- 
place, for it will never pass away; hence 
Paradise may be termed a place of tem- 
porary abode. 

Rev. 21:1, "And I saw a new heaven and 
a new earth, for the first heaven (Para- 
dise) and the first earth were passed away; 
and there was no more sea." 

Lu. 23:43, "And Jesus said unto him: 
Verily I say unto thee, Today thou shalt 
be with Me in Paradise." 

II Cor. 12:4, Paul "was caught up Into 
Paradise," yea, in a vision just as St. John 
was; hence, John at this time was given a 
future vision of Paradise. 

Rev. 2:7, "To him that overcometh will 
I give to eat of the tree of life which is in 
the midst of the Paradise of God." 

Gen. 3:22, "And God said and now lest 

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tree of life, and eat, and live forever," etc. 
Lu. 16:20, "And Lazarus died, and the 
angels carried him to Abraham's bosom." 
(Both in Paradise.) 

Ex. 20:22, While Moses was on the mount 
God talked with Moses from heaven. 
(Paradise.) 

Lu. 3:21-22, "The heaven (Paradise) was 
opened and a voice came from heaven which 
said, 'Thou art My beloved Son,' " etc. 

Mar. 13:17, "His angels shall gather his 
elect from the four winds, from the utter- 
most part of the earth, to the uttermost 
part of heaven." (Paradise, not from the 
uttermost part of the Third Heaven.) 

Dan. 4:35, "Doeth according to his will 
in the army of heaven." 

John 1:51, "Hereafter ye shall see the 
heaven opened and the angels of heaven 
ascending and descending upon the Son of 
Man." 

Rom. 1:18, "Wrath of God revealed from 
heaven." 

Col. 4:1, "Your master is in heaven." 

Lu. 2:12-13, "Shall find the babe . . . 
lying in a manger, and suddenly there was 



elect on earth will, which is a mystery. 
Doubtless given a more perfect spiritual or 
immortal body. Paul says we shall put on 
immortality. This we can leave with the 
Lord. 

We divert to point that the "host of 
heaven" sometimes means the army of the 
Lord on earth, or those on earth whose 
names are written in the Book of Life. 

Josh. 5, "As captain of the host of the 
fjord am I come." 

David's army was mentioned as the host 
of the Lord. 

Daniel refers to the "host of heaven" and 
"part of the host" (the men) "and of the 
stars" (the officers) "shall be cast to the 
ground," in the great war. The war in 
which the Beasts who then held their 
dominion on earth made war against the 
saints of the Lord. 

Very well, then, this vision presents the 
hrone which God has set up in Paradise. 
This company also comprised many angels 
round about the throne. "And He (Christ) 
took the Book (the Book of Life) out of 
the right hand of Him (God) that sat on 



with the angel a multitude of the heavenly the throne, and they all praised and wor- 

host" (those in Paradise) "praising God shipped God and the Lamb." 

and saying, "Glory be to God in the highest Let us consider what it is that this Book 

and on earth peace, good will to men." now contains. Why, it contains the names 

I Thes. 4, Paul says, "We who are alive of the host of the Lord in Paradise. How 

shall not prevent them which are asleep do we reach this conclusion? By analogy, 

but that the Lord will bring them with Until the war in heaven, see C. 6, Satan 



Him." Who are they? Why Abraham, 
Peter, Paul, Lazarus, the thief wio was 
pardoned, all disciples and all the host of 
Paradise who have died before this event. 
It is strange the translators of the Bible 
have used the word sleep in this transla- 
tion. Jesus in speaking of the God of 
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob said, "Ye do 
greatly err. God is not the God of the 
dead, but of the living." Therefore, our 
loved ones who are "asleep in Jesus" are 
not sleeping in their graves but are safe 
in Paradise and will come in the clouds 
of heaven along with Christ when He 
comes. 

This is spoken of as the first resurrec 
tion. We may infer that these loved ones 
will undergo some change, even as the 



and his angels, though having been long 
before cast out of the Third Heaven, were, 
we infer, permitted to occupy the air, or 
certain restricted portions of Paradise, and 
also the earth, and he, as a self-commis- 
sioned accuser, presumptuously accused and 
challenged at death, not the incorrigible 
ones, for they were certain of their doom 
under the judgment visited upon persons 
immediately after death, as is believed to 
have been the procedure then in vogue, 
but upon the brethren, the children of God. 
as well. I ^i 

How do we know there was then any 
judgment? Simply because Abraham and 
Lazarus had been assigned to their places 
in Paradise and the rich man likewise as- 
signed to the lower region.* Jesus, fur- 



One inquires what sins this rich man. had committed? The onlv ones discoverable appear to 
have heen those so common to the rich everywhere. FTe was engrrossed in his riches and wordlv 
affairs to the exclusion of the loftier things in life. Interested in his further accumulations and 
fared sumptuously every day. Lazerus, under great affliction, lay at his gate, week in and week 
out. and though abundantly able to act the part of the good Samaritan he neglected to do so 
J his was sm of ommission. He neglected also, we presume, to give even the tenth part of his 
income to the Lord. He did not honor God. 
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thermore, passed judgment on the thief 
^^hile he was suspended on the cross. Ho 
pardoned him. There was no Purgatory 
10 follow. The pardon was full and com- 
plete. 

How do we know Satan challenged the 
righteous ones? Because after the war in 
heaven, when Michael and his angels cast 
the Devil and his angels to the earth, there 
was great rejoicing because he, the accuser 
of the brethren as they entered Paradise, 
was cast out. 

It is fair, therefore, to infer that all this 
heavenly host had been redeemed and their 
names were written in this great Book. 

But now let us return to the tense situa- 
tion in John's vision. 

Satan is just to be cast out of Paradise. 
This occurs at the opening of the first and 
second seals, as hereinafter mentioned. A 
new plan is to be in vogue. The Book is 
to be opened up by the breaking of the 
seals, and as the world war comes on, a 
survey is made of the people of the earth 
and all the faithful become among the 
"host of heaven"; and their judgment, such 
as It is, takes place while here on earth, 
even as the judgment of the thief on the 
cross had taken place, and their names at 
the beginning of and during the war and 
until the day Christ comes in the clouds, 
are also entered in the Book. Fine, isn't It? 

Chap. 6:12. The opening of the first 
seal: "A white horse and he that sat on 
him had a bow ; and a crown was given 
unto him, and he went forth conquering, 
and to conquer/' 

3. "And when he had opened the second 
seal I heard the second beast say, Come 
and see." 

4. "And there went out another horse 
that was red:" and the one who rode upon 
bim is the same as is elsewhere mentioned 
PS the Red Dragon. All this occurred in 
Paradise. 

* * * * 

Now we must stop right here and supply 
ihe missing link. The war in the Lower 
Heaven now took place. Michael and his 
angels (these are not to be understood as 
those who had been redeemed from earth 
who were undergoing the healing process in 
Paradise, but angels who had come with 
Michael from the Third Heaven) fought 
with the Dragon and his angels and Satan 
and his angels were cast out of such portion 



o! Paradise as they had been permitted to 
occupy, into the earth. 

4. Then it was that he was permitted to 
take peace from the earth and induce the 
Kaiser and the Turk to inaugurate their 
aggressive warfare which is resisted by the 
liberty loving nations. 



* * * 



5. And when he had opened the third 
seal, there appeared a black horse and the 
rider had a pair of balances in his hand. 

Both sides in the great world war are to 
be tried according to justice, equity and 
truth. 

6. "And see thou hurt not the oil and 
the wine." 

This is most interesting. Permit us to 

explain. 

* * * * 

The Anglo-Saxon race is made up of the 
long lost ten tribes of the House of Israel; 
separate from the Jews, who are of the 
House of Judah, composed of the tribe of 
Judah and the tribe of Benjamin. (I Kings 
lo: 20-21.) Both houses are descendants of 
Abraham. 

When Jacob had his contest with the 
3ngel he was called Israel. His twelve 
sons with their descendants were called 
the twelve tribes of Israel, also called the 
Children of Israel. The Jews were derived 
from Judah, hence, originally were but one 
tribe out of the twelve. David was a Jew 
and reigned over the twelve tribes. This 
was before the division of the kingdom. At 
the time of the division of the kingdom, 
the tribe of Judah, which possessed Jerusa- 
lem, was Joined by the tribe of Benjamin 
which had adjoining territory, and the iwo 
combined formed the House of Judah. The 
other ten tribes formed the House of Israel. 
The two tribes intermarried and their de- 
scendants principally have formed the Jew- 
ish race. 

All through the Bible, from a certain 
period, Israel and Judah are kept separate. 
The House of Israel went into captivity and 
never returned, became unknown, and ap- 
peared to be dead, and it was prophesied in 
Ezekiel that they would appear to be dead 
until the prophecies concerning them were 
ftflfilled, (the world war, etc.,) when they 
v^ere to be revealed as the House of Israel. 

But the House of Judah after their cap- 
tivity returned, rebuilt Jerusalem and were 
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earth. It was the Jews who said, "His 
blood be upon us and upon our children;" 
and it is their descendants who have the 
facial expression and the charactistics that 
we recognize as pertaining to the Jews to 
this day. 

The lost ten tribes, who were scattered 
throughout Asia Minor, Upper Palestine 
and Europe, have no racial similarity with 
the Jews. The Irish race, for instance, 
are believed to be descendants of the tribe 
of Dan. We Anglo-Saxons, therefore, are 
among the children of Abraham. 

There is great significance in the words 
of Christ, "I came not but to the Lost Sheep 
of the House of Israel." That is, He came 
to save, among others, the lost ten tribes 
cf the House of Israel. 

Again He said to His twelve disciples: 
"Go not Into the way of the Gentiles, but 
go rather to the Lost Sheep of the House 
of Israel." Later on, of course, their range 
was extended to include the Gentiles. 

Now in Chap. 7:2-8, an angel appears 
with a seal and seals 12,000 from each of 
the twelve tribes of Israel; which we read- 
ily see embraces both the "House of Israel" 
and the "House of Judah." 

Under the symbol of the two sticks, the 
Lord has promised to take Israel and Judah 
and make them one in the mountains of 
Israel and under one King. These, Israel 
^nd Judah, are "the oil and the wine." 
Their names are now being registered in 
the Book of Life and it would seem from 
subsequent passages that they are to be 
specially honored In the Kingdom of 
Heaven. Other names are also entered in 
the Book of Life from all nations, and kin- 
dreds, and peoples and tongues, as shown 
in verses 9 to 17, but they are not among 
the sealed. 

7. "And when he had opened the fourth 
seal, a pale horse and his name that sat 
on him was Death ; and Hell followed after, 
and power was given to kill with the sword, 
with hunger, with death and with the beasts 
of the earth." This is the world war now 
upon us. 

Death, of course, was pronounced on all 
mankind, therefore, we are not to under- 
stand that none of the oil and the wine are 
to be hurt by death, but rather that death 
is not the real hurt referred to. Death is 
merely the separation of the soul from its 



tenement of clay, and while attended with 
a few pangs, they are of short duration and 
are really trivial in comparison with the 
.greater hurt that falls upon the wicked. 
Hell that followed death is the hurt, and the 
oil and the wine are redeemed from this 
hurt. They are safe. Those who are transla- 
ted at Christ's coming will, of course, es- 
cape death. 

"Fear not them that hath power to de- 
stroy the body but rather fear ye him who 
Jiath power to destroy both the body and 
soul in hell. " 

This quotation is fhom Christ's own 
words. They have very great significance. 
We are not to fear Satan or the Germans 
or the Turks who can destroy our bodies, 
but who cannot destroy the soul but we are 
to hold God in awe and reverence who 
can also destroy the soul. The primary 
word is destroy. "In hell" is merely an ad- 
jective and indicates the process of destruc- 
tion. For instance a man is killed! how? 
why he was drowned, or he was shot, or 
v/as killed in a railway accident. The es- 
sential point is he is dead. Now, the de- 
struction of the soul is spoken of, as natural- 
ly as the destruction of the body. If the 
man's soul had been endowed with immor- 
tality even God could not destroy it. If 
Satan were endowed with immortality 
Christ could not destroy him. The meaning 
of destroy is to put an end to; to obi iterate- 
to blot out; to cause something to cease to 
exist. 

* * * * 

9-11. The opening of the fifth seal is self 
explanatory. These were those who had 
suffered the greatest extremities of perse- 
cution, and it seems were assigned a place of 
honor, under the alter in Paradise; pro- 
bably, the front seats or immediately before 
the altar. 

Many wonder why the Lord permits this 
war to continue so long. Even those before 
the altar in Paradise inquired, "How long. 
Lord, how long." 

Does it not appear to be that the Lord of 
Hosts in His infinite wisdom, is reserving 
vengeance for the appointed time, as pro- 
phesied, in greats forbearance and compass- 
ion withholding the day, in order that the 
people all over the world, including those 
of Germany and her allies, through the en- 
lightenment of the intensity of the hour, 
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accepting or rejecting His Grace. 

There are two most important judgments. 
One during the 42 months after the remov- 
al of the Church and before the beginning 
of the Millennium, and the other at the End 

of the World. 

* ♦ * * 

The opening of the sixth seal, vs. 12-17, 
sets forth the signs mentioned by Christ in 
Mat. 24: 29-30, which immediately precede 
his coming in the clouds. See C9 Chart II. 

* * * * 

We now come to Chapter 8. 

1-5. The opening of the seventh seal is 
the continuation of the voices and thunder- 
ings and lightnings and an earthquake, cul- 
minating, we are to infer, in Christ's deliver- 
ance of the Church. C9. 

We have now reached a most interesting 
stage of the prophecies. For 42 months, the 
Church is absent, being nourished in Para- 
dise, and during this period the Two Wit- 
nesses shall prophesy, even as Moses and 
Aaron did of old, and the rebellious ones 
who remain are sorely afflicted even as 
the Egyptians were in the days of Moses, 
only more, severely. The grace of the 
Lord, so long extended with compassion, 
being changed to punishment. They are 
given this affliction also to awaken them 
from their presumptions follies and sins. 
Only a remnant, it appears, heeded the call. 
Chap. 11: 13. 

We call attention to Chap. 10:1-14. 

When this seventh seal was opened, seven 
angels appeared and stood before God, hav- 
ing seven trumpets ready to sound. 

It is interesting to follow in this connec- 
tion the number seven. There were the 
seven seals to the Book, and when the seven- 
th seal was opened seven angels (messen- 
gers of Christ) were revealed with 
seven trumpets, and when the seven- 
th angel sounded or cried, there were 
seven thunders; hence we have pre- 
sented the seventh of the seventh of the 
seventh, culminiating in the destruction of 
the old heaven and the old earth and the 
bringing in of the new heaven and the new 
earth; the final judgment of the wicked; 
the End of Time. 

Chap. 10:7. "But in the days of the voice 
of the seventh angel, when he shall begin 
to sound, the mystery of God should be 
finished, as he hath declared to his servants 
the prophets." 



That is to say, Christ will come to earth 
to begin his millennial reign, Dl, which 
closes up all the mysteries preceding it. 

Verse 6 to 13 in Chap. 8 record the sound- 
ing of the first, second, third and fourth 
angels,, bringing four of the seven last 
plagues which make up the wrath of God 
upon the rebellious ones on earth. The first 
was hail mingled with fire; the second, a 
\^reat mountain burning, a volcano; the third, 
a great star fell from heaven; (possibly a 
collision with a comet,) the fourth, the sun 
was smitten and shone not for a third of 
the time. Four woes were finished and yet 
three other woes were to follow. 

Chap. 9: 1-12. The fifth angel sounded 
and a great smoke and locusts came forth 
to torment men for five months. 4. "But 
only those men which have not the seal of 
God in their foreheads," for those who were 
sealed had been carried to Paradise there- 
tofore, the Church having escaped these 
seven plagues, as they all come between 
C9. and Dl, Chart 11. 

The star in verse 1 that fell from heav- 
en was Lucifer (Satan) who had been an 
angel of light, high in the councils of heav- 
en. The fact that he and his followers re- 
belled and were cast out and are doomed 
tc be destroyed, reveals that even the an- 
gels of heaven originally were not vested 
with immortality, but that they were sub- 
jected to the test of absolute loyalty to God, 
even as men and women are today, before 
receiving it, and that those who were un- 
true are lost. 

Satan was given the key to the bottom- 
less pit, 1. e., hell, for a time, but at the 
time of Dl in Chart 11, another angel, a 
messenger of Christ, overcomes him and 
confines him threin. (Chap. 20: 1-3.) 

One of the three last woes is now past. 

13-21. And the sixth angel sounded and 
four angels were loosed for war and by 
these the third part of men were killed by 
the fire and the smoke and the brimstone. 

This is not to be understood as the world 
war now on, for the latter was made by 
the Beast and the F'alse Prophet upon the 
saints before their translation, hence, it 
preceded C9, while the former is one of 
the judgments sent on the wicked between 
C9 and Dl. This war relating to the sixth 
woe is the same great war as is described 
in Chap. 19: 11-21, in which Christ and his 
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third of the remaining wicked, just before 
Dl, the beginning of the millenium. A care- 
ful study of the Chart and of the passages 
referred to will make this plain. 

Chap. 10: 5-6 relate to Fl. It will be ob- 
served that certain things were revealed to 
John, even as there were to Paul, w^hich 
he was not permitted to reveal. 

Chap. 11: 1-13. Refers to the Two Wit- 
nesses, possibly Enoch and Elijah, who it is 
prophesied shall come and prophesy against 
the wicked during the 42 months between 
C9 and Dl. Jesus also in his day proclaimed 
the truth for a period of 3^ years, (one 
half of seven.) 

2. "For it is given unto the Gentiles and 
the holy city (Jerusalem) they shall tread 
under foot fcrty and two months," mean 
simply that the Church having been taken 
away, none but the unbelievers, the Gen- 
tiles, remain, and they have full sway in 
the holy city and indeed in the whole eartn 
during this period. 

8. Establishes that the Two Witnesses 
carry forward their work at Jerusalem 
where they are finally slain, but are restor- 
ed to life after three days and a half; (one 
half of sevDP.) 

It will be observed in v. 13 the "remnant" 
were affrighted and turned to the Lord." 
And in Chap. 12:17 "The Dragon was wroth 
with the woman and went to make war 
^ith the remnant of her seed who keep the 
commandments," etc. 

Chap. 12: 1-2. "And there appeared a 
great wonder in heaven, a woman (the true 
Church) clothed with the Sun, (the Gospel 
truth) and the moon (the Law of Moses) 
under her feet and upon her head twelve 
stars," (the twelve apostles.) 

"And she being with child, travailing, 
pained to be delivered ;" This represents 
the Church during the present war and tri- 
bulation. 

3. "And there appeared another wonder in 
heaven, (Paradise) a Great Red Dragon, 
(the Devil.) 7-10. He was cast out of Para- 
dise to the earth. 13. He made war on the 
Church. 

4. "And his tail drew the third part of 
the stars (officers) of heaven, and did cast 
them to the earth." This it will be seen re- 
fers to the present war, which occurs after 
Satan has been cast out of the Lower Hea- 
ven. "And the dragon stood ready to devour 
the man child," should he come to the 



earth. 

All this requires some adaptation of 
thought. 

John's vision which was seen in Heaven 
cr Paradise, clearly by analogy must be 
understood to relate to things happening 
both in Paradise and on earth. 

The woman was in distress and longed 
to be delivered. It is symbolized as though 
she was to be delivered, while in travail, of 
a child. Jesus, true, was the child of Mary, 
hence the Son of Man, but He was also 
the Son of God, and now He comes in the 
clouds and delivers the Church, i. e., re- 
lieves her of her great trial. 

Satan, now limited to the Earth only, 
cannot reach Him in the clouds, hence the 
final test of strength does not come at this 
time. 5-6. He is caught up to God's throne 
and the Church to a place of safety pre- 
pared of God for her, (Paradise,) where 
she rests and is nourished for forty two 
months. 

This is repeated in v. 14, where time, 
(one year) times (two years) and half a 
time (half a year) mean ZVz years, being 
one of the reiterations common to the 
Scriptures. 

Chap. 13. The Beast (the Turkish Em- 
pire) with the mystical number 666, and the 
Beast (the Kaiser) who decrees that none 
shall buy or sell except they receive his 
mark, are fully set forth under chapter 
XIV. of this book. 

Chap. 14: 1-3. "And I looked and, lo, a 
Lamb stood on Mount Sion." (Christ has re- 
turned to earth, see Acts 1: 11,) and with 
him an hundred and forty thousand, 
having their Father's name written in their 
foreheads." 

These are those who were sealed of the 
"House of Israel" and the "House of Ju- 
dah." The forty two months have expired 
and the millenium reign has begun. 

Other references which relate to Christ's 
coming to earth to reign follow. 
* * ♦ * 

Zech. 14: 3. "Then shall the Lord go forth 
and fight against those nations, as when 
He fought in the day of battle." Just prior 
to Dl the same as the sixth woe. Observe, 
fthis is not to be understood as the open- 
ing of the sixth seal, which occurs before 
Christ comes in the clouds, but the sixth 
woe, elsewhere set forth as the sixth plague 
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the rebellious ones during the interim of 
42 months. 

4. "And His feet shall- stand in that day 
upon the Mount of Olives, which is Jerusa- 
lem.' 

5. '"And the Lord my God shall come and 
all the saints with Thee." 

Rev. 20: 6. "And they shall reign with 
Him a thousand years." 

Acts 3: 20-21. "Jesus, Christ, whom the 
heaven must receive until the time of re- 
stitution of all things." When, it follows, 
He will return to the earth. 

Chap. 14: 4-5. "These are they who were 
not defiled with woman; for they are vir- 
gins. These are they which follow the Lamb 
whithersoever He goeth. These were re- 
deemed from among men, being the first 
fruits unto God and to the Lamb." 

"And in their mouth was found no guile, 
for they are without fault before the throne 
of God." 

These it win be understood are the Saints. 

Let us say that the Roman Catholic Church 
interprets this passage of the Scripture 
chiefly, we think, as its basis for imposing 
on its clergy and nuns the vow of chastity, 
and consequently makes celibacy a matter 
cf church discipline. With this church ten- 
ant we cannot agree. 

We believe we are warranted in interpret- 
ing the word virgin as a smybol of purity; 
we believe that it is sin and sin 
only that defileth one. That God hav- 
ing established the holy bonds of 
matrimony necessary for the survival of the 
race by the lofty ideals of family and home, 
would not see in husband and wife, joined 
in lawful w^edlock, any defilement to either 
in their coming together as such. That it is 
adultery, fornication, sin and that only, that 
defileth. 

We do not, therefore, believe that the 
sealed ones are composed only of the 
Priests and Nuns who submit to such vows, 
as so taught. 

We believe, furthermore, that when God- 
forgives an erring, repentant child, the for- 
giveness is full and complete, even as the 
father of the prodigal son forgave him and 
restored him to his full estate, and we be- 
lieve, therefore, that all of the twelve tribes 
iV/ho come under God's grace, are within the 
number who are sealed, and redeemed from 
the earth. 



It will be observed that the 144,000 who 
are sealed are to be with Christ on the 
earth during His reign. They are com- 
missioned to do a special work, 1:5-6, "And 
the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, unto 
him that washed us from our sins in His 
cwn blood, and hath made us kings and 
priests unto God and His Father'.' Again 
5. 10. "And hath made us unto our God 
kings and priests ; and we shall reign on 
the earth," i. e., during the millennial 
period. 

We think it safe to believe that neither 
Christ nor His Church, who returns with 
Him to earth, are limited to this sphere 
during the thousand years, but have the 
same power to rise to Paradise, to go and 
come at will that Christ Himself had after 
His resurrection. We are told that Christ 
was given a glorified body and that we 
shall be like Him. 

* * * * 

14:6-7. Here as set forth another angel 
is sent to preach the everlasting Gospel, 
(the Gospel that must be preached so long 
as time lasts,) during the millenium. To 
whom? To those on earth; to every na- 
tion, and kindred, and tongue and people. 
Now this angel as preaching the Gospel 
is typical. One angel could not reach one 
billion people. The farct is the "priests" 
among the redeemed Church are the ones 
who will preach the gospel. 

We must try to grasp the situation. 

At the present time it is estimated (Whit- 
tier's Almanac, London, 1916,) there are 
upon the earth approximately 1,647,388,000. 
Of this number those profess- 
ing Christianity are : 

Protestant 171,650,000 

Eastern Orthodox 120,000,000 

Roman Catholic 272,860,000 

Total 564,510,000 

All others 1,082,878,000 

These are roughly estimated as follows: 

Ccnfucianists and Tavists 300,830,000 

Mohammedans .- 221,822,000 

Hindus 210,440,000 

Animists 158,270,000 

Buddhists 138,031,000 

Others 53,382,000 

Total 1,082,775,000 

While many will die under the afflictions 
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we can gather from this some idea of the 
multitudes that will remain, and it is to 
these the everlasting Gospel is to be 
preached during the millennium; hence there 
is a great work ahead for the Church to do 
during this period, before the day of the 
Great Harvest. 

8. Another angel announces "Babylon is 
fallen." This is obviously prior to D I. 
See Chap. 17. 

9-13. "And the third angel followed, say- 
ing, 'If any man worship the Dragon, or 
his image or receive his mark in. the 
forehead or in his hand, God's vengeance 
will rest on him." Relates to the period 
of the world war. 

14-21. Fl. The final judgment. 

Chap. 15 relates to the period C9 to Dl. 

Chap. 16:1-12. C9 to Dl. 

13-14. C7 to C8. 

15. C9. 

16. C7 to C8. 

17-21. C9 to Dl. The last of the seven 
plagues. 

Chap. 17:1-7. Prior to Dl. 

8. Dl to Fl. 

9-18. Prior to Dl. Rome. 

This chapter refers to the False Woman, 
P^abylon, that sitteth upon many waters, 
i e., had a certain power over the peoples 
and multitudes and nations and tongues of 
the earth. She sat upon the Scarlet Col- 
ored Beast, elsewhere called the Red Drag- 
on, who backed her up and supported her, 
even as he did the Beast (the Kaiser) and 
the. other Beast, the False Prophet (the 
Turk.) 

"The Beast which thou sawest which was 
and is not and yet is," is believed to be 
Satan (the same. Red Dragon) and relates 
to the time of the millennial period; that 
i-i to say, he was in power theretofore, but 
vas divested of his authority during the 
period he was bound, but still he lived. 
He is further identified as the one "who 
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit," from 
which he comes at the close of the millen- 
nium, "and goeth into perdition." That is, 
he was finally lost. Christ spoke of Judas 
Iscariot also, as the "son of perdition." He, 

too, was lost. 

^ ^ ^ ^ 

Many have been confused over the state- 
ments in Revelation: "And they shall be 
cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, 
where they shall be tormented, day and 



night, forever and ever." Again, "everlast- 
ing fire" and' "everlasting punishment." 
These to many seem to be insurmountable. 
To the writer they appear to be easily ex- 
plainable. The angel swore that from the 
End of the World, "time should be no 
more. "--Such periods as day and night, year, 
century, millennium, will be no more. Ever 
has two distinct meanings. When applied 
to God or to eternal subjects, it means 
eternal, unending; when to Satan or the 
wicked, who, we are told elsewhere,^ are 
to be utterly destroyed, are to perish, it 
means it comes within the range of time 
and ends when time ends. ''Day and night, 
forever and ever." (Note the descriptive 
words, day and night.) It means so long 
as day and night continue. Everlasting 
fire and everlasting punishment simply 
mean punishment so long as time lasts. 

When conflict seems to appear in the 
inspired word, knowing that truth always 
harmonizes with itself, we must allow the 
stronger to encompass the weaker; even as 
in Chapter 11, wherein it is shown the 
Gospel is within or encompassed by the 
Great Law of God. Christ said of the two 
commandments: Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, and thy neigh- 
bor as thyself. "Upon these two hang all 
the Law and the Prophets." We are to 
understand that all the gentleness and for- 
bearance taught in the Gospel of Grace is 
embraced therein. 

The expressions, "everlasting torment" 
and "forever and ever" emanate from Saint 
John, and thereafter he interprets them 
clearly. He says in one place. Death and 
Hell shall be cast into the lake of fire." In 
another, "they, the Devil, the Beast, the 
False Prophet and the wicked, shall be cast 
into the lake of fire. This is the Second 
Death." The law is, "The soul that sinneth, 
it shall die." Therefore this second death is 
the death of the soul — oblivion, 
* * * * 

We do not find in the Gospel or in the 
teachings of the early Bishops anything 
that leads to the doctrine of eternal tor- 
ment, but positively the opposite. Destroy, 
perish, lost, outer darkness, everlasting des- 
truction, consuming fire, ( fire that con- 
sumes to an ash,) unquenchable fire, (the 
same as a consuming fire. It cannot, be 
quenched and utterly destroys the object 
burning.) whose worm dieth not, (the rela- 



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tion is between the apple and the worm, 
iLe worm persists and consumes the apple,) 
damnation of hell, a finality. No possible 
cliance to retrieve. Eternal damnation. No 
possible resurrection or restoration. But 
ue tind that hell like Paradise is a place of 
temporary abode. 

Dives was in torment in hell. He was 
in a bad way. There was a gulf and it was 
fixed. He was barred from Paradise and 
from Heaven. Other men have been in 
the penitentiary for life. But death comes 
to both and that ends it. 

For aught we know an end may have 
come to his suffering ere this. His soul 
may have reached a stage of sleep, for we 
read "the rest of the dead (the unredeem- 
ed) lived not again until the thousand years 
were finished." 

Once we get away from the false tenant — 
a tenant adopted by the Roman Catholic 
Church and by Mohammed — that all souls 
are necessarily immortal from birth, and 
allow it to rest where it belongs, in the 
hands of the Lord, the great problems about 
eternal torment fade away. They evapor- 
ate. Then we drink in a great flood of 
light. Instantly we can by analogy reach 
the conclusion that God will visit upon the 
offenders a penalty commensurate with the 
wilful crimes committed, such crimes being 
committed under the temptation of the 
enemy of God and man. 

Under God's law as given to Moses, light 
sins received light penalties and great sins 
severe penalties, the extreme penalty being 
capital punishment. 

Now, as we read the Scriptures, Satan, 
the Beast and the False Prophets are given 
the maximum penalties, 1000 years and 
somewhat more in torment. Will anyone 
say this is too great? starting with this as 
the maximum we can w^ork backwards and 
as "Just and Right is He," how easy it is 



to leave it with the Lord, who has reserved 
judgment to Himself, and in faith rest 
in the assurance that the duration of the 
penalties will be such that all will approve. 

* * * * 

The promise is not "He that believeth in 
the eternal torment of the wicked shall be 
saved." Oh, no, not that. 

John 4: 6. "For God so loved the world 
that He gave His only begotton Son that 
whosoever believeth on Him should not per- 
ish but have everlasting life." 

Mar. 16: 16. "He that believeth and is 
baptized shall be saved, and he that believ- 
eth not shall be dammed." 

Acts 8: 34-39. "See, here is water. What 
doth hinder me to be baptized. And Philip 
said, "If thou believest with all thine heart 
thou mayest?" And he said, "I believe that 
Jesus Christ is the Son of God," and he 
baptized him. And w^hen they were come 
up out of the water the Spirit of the Lord 
caught Philip away and the eunuch saw 
him no more and he went on his way re- 
joicing.". 

Chap. 18: 1-3. C9 to Dl. Babylon is fallen. 

4-7. Prior to Dl. 

8-24. Prior to Dl. Probably C9 to Dl. 

Chap. 19:1-10. The marriage of the Lamo. 
Probably after Fl. 

11-21. Prior to Dl. The same as the 
sixth woe, the sixth plague. 

Chap. 20:1-3. Dl. 

4-5. D. 

Last part of 5 and 6. D. 

7-9. E. 

10-15, Fl. 

Chapters 21 and 22 present F, the Great 
White Throne, and Saint John's concluding 
w^ords to us are: 

"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be 
with you all. Amen." 




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CHAPTER XVII. 
The Millennium. 



In the Lord's Prayer we find "Thy King- 
dom come. Thy will be done on earth as 
it is in heaven." The fulfillment will be 
much more nearly approached during this 
Millennial period. D, Chart II. 

Zech. 14: 4. "And His feet shall stand in 
that day upon the Mount of Olives, which 
is before Jerusalem." 

Rev. 14: 1. "And I looked, and lo, a Lamb 
stood on the Mount of Sion, and with Him 
an hundred and forty and four thousand, 
having His Father's name written in their 
foreheads." 20:6, "And shall reign with 
Him a thousand years." 

Isa. 32:1. "Behold, a king shall reign in 
righteousness, and princes shall rule in 
judgment." 

Rev. 11: 15. "The Kingdoms of this world 
are become the Kingdoms of our Lord 
Jesus Christ." 

Of Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, it 
was prophesied before his fall, "Oh, thou 
profane and wicked prince, . . . take 
off the diadem, remove the crown; I will 
overturn, overturn, overturn it, until He 
comes whose right it is, and I will give it 
unto Him." 

Acts 11:21. "Jesus Christ, whom the heav- 
en must receive until the restitution of all 
things," when it naturally follows He will 
return to earth. 

The Millenium will be an age of univer- 
sal blessedness in which all on earth shall 
participate. 



We believe that when Christ comes to 
earth to reign, having as He has, a glorified 
body, and His saints, who have come with 
Him, have likewise glorified bodies, just 
as Moses and Elijah had at the transfigura- 
tion of Christ, (Lu. 9:27-35,) they can come 
and go from earth to Paradise at their 
pleasure. Why should they be limited to 
earth? 

A new order of things will come in. He 
will be acknowledged as the Sovereign of 
all the rulers of the earth. There will be 
righteous judges only and speedy justice 
measured out in harmony with the Law. 
Satan will be bound. The power to heal the 
sick, to destroy the disease germs, even to 
heal the lepers, will be vested in the Lord 
and His followers, as it was in the time 
when the Lord was on earth, and the health 
of the people will be restored. Those pos- 
sessed with devils will be relieved, and the 
insane restored to their normal condition. 
The blind shall see, the lame walk and 
the crooked shall be made straight. There 
will be universal peace and great safety, 
and a restoration of better things. The 
lion will lie down with the lamb. 

The earth will yield her fruits in season 
and Satan will not be here to sow the 
tares. Music, sunshine, smiles, songs, peace 
and joy in the Lord will abound, and life 
will be worth living under the peoples' 
King. Hallelujah! Glory be to God and 
to the Lamb! 




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ADDENDUM 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Touching Upon the Problems 
of Trade, Curb and 

On December 1, 1917, an official 
statement from Washington said we 
have ten persons in the United States 
whose incomes for the year 1917 ex- 
ceeded $5,000,000.00. (England has many 
more than we,) 196 whose incomes ranged 
from $1,000,000.00 to $5,000,000.00; 2,238 
fiom $200,000.00 to $1,000,000.00, and 2900 
from $100,000.00 to $200,00.00. These are 
not amounts of personal fortunes, but of 
p&rsonal annual incomes. 

This state of affairs is present at a time 
when the masses are economizing and mak- 
ing great sacrifices for the cause; when 
parents are giving up their boys and the 
boys are going forth undaunted; when the 
mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are 
nursing the sick and wounded, or working 
at home faithfully for the cause, when 
physicians are volunteering, and when many 
lives are being offered up from all the na- 
tions. 

Is it not apparent that prices are being 
advanced and profits swelled under the 
pressing necessities of this abnormal time? 
Great God, what can these men be thinking 
of? "Behold the earth is the Lord's and all 
that therein is." Deu. 10:14. The Lord, 
true, while holding the title, turns it over 
tc the people to subdue and use for their 
livelihood, enjoyment and comfort, but sub- 
ject to the God given laws for man's own 
good. 

Can we expand our vision to a view as to 
what w^ould come to pass if the owners of 
the wealth of our nation, each for himself 
should be shut up alone with God, should 
awaken from his insane greed, lay down 
his pride, and dedicate his wealth in good 
conscience to the Lord? Would it not be 
the dawning of a new age? 

Can anyone estimate the real sacrifice, 
the real cost of these swollen fortunes, the 
labor, the sweat, the worry, the heart ache, 
and the lives spent in bringing them forth? 
If these capitalists do not respect the law 
01' God and cannot take the hint, then, in 
God's name it is time our statesmen get 
busy. 



of Capital and Labor, Boards 
Stock Exchanges. 

Let us consider one case. 

Andrew Carnegie, who started at the foot 
of the ladder in 1863, according to his own 
testimony before the Congressional Com- 
mittee, offered his holdings in steel plants, 
transportation facilities, etc., to Mr. Frick 
fcr $220,000,000.00. The option was not 
taken up and two years later he marked up 
the price $100,000,000.00 and pulled it off for 
$320,000,000.00 with J. P. Morgan and as- 
sociates. Since that date, Mr. Carnegie's 
income (counting the interest on his bonds 
at 5% and his preferred stock at 7, the rates 
paid thereon) has exceeded $180,000,000.00. 
Adding the two we have a net total of $500, 
000,000.00. 

If we count the yearly income of a work- 
ing man at $1000.00 which amount probably 
exceeds the- iaverage wage paid by Mr. 
Carnegie (many of his men being required 
to work twelve hours a day) and also pro- 
bably exceeds the average wage paid by his 
successor prior to the outbreak of the war, 
and divide the larger amount by it, we find 
a workman would be compelled to work 
for five hundred thousand years to earn the 
amount of Mr. Carnegie's accumulations. 

But bear in mind this man would not have 
had this sum net for he would have been 
under the expenses of living for himself and 
family for five hundred thousand years, 
which yould have been quite an item. 

Another way of figuring it is to divide the 
sum by the number of working days in the 
fifty five years and we find he had all 
through, good years and panicy years, after 
paying living expenses, labor bills and busi- 
ness expenses, a daily net income of $30, 
300.00. 

Mr. Carnegie now needs his holdings pro- 
tected from the raids of the Kaiser, Yes; 
the products of the plants must be insured 
safe delivery to their destination and over 
the high seas wheresoever. Sure. He did 
not fight in '63 and he is too old to fight 
now. Somebody must fight his battles for 
him. 

Is it not high time that the rich take a 
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around and square themselves with the 
laws of God and man? 

Is it not a reproach upon our Courts that 
they have not found a solution, and upon 
our Statesmen and Government that such 
things have been possible of accomplish- 
ment. 

Is it not a reproach that a single corpora- 
tion has been able to mark up its prices, in 
this time of stress of the nations, so as to 
make in a single year, after paying extra- 
vagant salaries to its officers, taxes, inter- 
est on bonds and fixed charges, a net profit 
of two hundred and forty million dollars? 

Our Statesmen, true, have taken the ini- 
tial steps for correcting these abuses, but 
still the profits are unreasonable and ex- 
cessive. The Government should materially 
advance the amount of the inheritance tax- 
es. A limit should be fixed of the amount 
that may pass by gift or bequest to any in- 
dividual. Not only this, but the law should 
provide that any person possessing property 
ill value of an amount to be fixed should 
not be eligible* to receive any further gifts 
or bequests. All estates of diseased per- 
sons over and above should be taken over 
by the Government. We will need this to 
assist in giving relief from the burdens of 
the war. 

The law also should prohibit the trans- 
ferring of these fortunes to foreign coun- 
tries. 

Laws along these lines will have a most 
v.holesome effect. Men are ambitious to 
do great things; but when they find that 
barriers are interposed in the way of amass- 
ing great fortunes, their goal, it would seem 
may be shifted to good works, works for 
their day and generation, where the oppor- 
tunities are always present to bear fruit 
abundantly. 

Let us reflect upon the past for a moment. 
Rich men and women have lived and died, 
and bequeathed their millions to their fami- 
lies. Jay Gould, W. H. Vanderbilt, E. H. 
Harriman, Marshall Field, Anheuser Busch, 
Hetty Green. Are their memories held 
precious in the hearts of the people? Are 
their heirs more sacred than the heirs of 
other citizens? Rather when their names 
are mentioned does it not bring up the 
thought that injustice was done in their 
generation; sharp practice, collusion, op- 
pression? 

Because of this condition prevailing too 



many good men die, leaving no homes or es- 
tates to their families. There are too many 
dependent widows to eke out the remainder 
of their existence under adverse conditions. 
Too much care, anxiety, stress and worry 
over the mere problem of shelter, food and 
clothing. 

It is not so much but what the Lord sends 
blessings, but the cream is taken by the 
few to the detriment of the many. 

Without doubt Mr. Carnegie feels that he 
has done the right thing in donating for 
public libraries, the Hague, the Peace Tri- 
bimals, and so on, and so he has. He has 
really done great good. But this is only 
recompense in part for the unjust oppress- 
ion to his men and the extortion from the 
public at large. 

* * * * 

The following is from an address by a 
well-known minister of the Southland to a 
certain Club: 

"So we are fighting to make the world 
safe for Democracy. For this we are pledg- 
ed to the last man and the last dollar. This 
iii worth while; it is worth fighting for. 

But, gentlemen, there is another issue I 
v.ould raise. What about making Democra- 
cy safe for the world? Imagine the war 
closed, and the Kaiser given a rest, Turkey 
eliminated, Democracy established on earth, 
no more wars among nations, but social 
wars, feuds, strikes, wrongs, brutalities? 

God's time is near at hand. Except a 
man, a nation, yes, Democracy itself, be 
bom again, it cannot be saved. 

Yes, we are going to see the war through. 
There is no question about that. We are 
going, the Lord willing, to make the world 
safe for Democracy, but, please God, are 
we going to make Democracy safe for the 
world? 

In other words, we, the leaders and the 
people, in Domocracies as well, must learn 
to square our course with the* laws of God. 

* ie * * 

There may be no harm in offering a 
suggestion tending toward the solution of 
the troublesome labor question. 

When a corporation accepts a charter 
from a state or government it must take 
the same subject to supervision by such 
slate or government. And while we all rec- 
ognize that too much paternalism is ob- 
jectionable, matters have progressed to such 
a stage that more supervision than has ever 



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before been exercised is imperative. 

A strike does violence to three parties; 
the public, the employer and the employee. 
It is a brutal way of trying to settle a dis- 
pute. 

The people of the nation cannot permit 
their industrial life and welfare to be para- 
lized or jeopardized. The public cannot long- 
er take the risk of having long and disas- 
trous strikes occur, nor can they afford to 
further shirk their responsibility to all par- 
ties in interest. A remedy must be found. 

Mr. George W. Perkins, a director of large 
corporations, among others, The Interna- 
tional Harvester Co., which was challenged 
by the Attorney General, having had large 
experience in the employment of men, and 
having given much study to the subject, 
says he believes the solution of the trouble 
lies in some plan to be worked out of profit 
sharing with the employees. Employers in 
England have reached the same conclusion. 

Congress recently provided that the earn- 
ings of Federal Corporations are subject to 
division with the Government; the earnings 
up to 6% first to go to the stockholders, the 
excess to be shared with the Government. 

This is a good beginning. 

In the large corporations, that must of 
necessity henceforth be more or less under 
federal control, is it not possible to de- 
velop and adapt this plan to sharing with 
the employees also? 

Let the Company's profits, say, in excess 
of the 6% to the stockholders, be made a 
trust fund ; a certain percentage thereof to 
bf used for extensions, a certain per cent 
for insuring the employees against accident, 
death and old age pensions; the remainder 
lo be distributed between stockholders and 
employees on such basis as the law may 
provide. 

Under such a plan of supervision, where 
the interests of capital and labor are 
united in making the enterprise a success, 
the interests of all being identical in a 



broad- equitable plan of concert and co- 
operation, with penalties against each side 
in case of breech of agreement, it woulcl 
seem that strikes would automatically end. 
Furthermore, under such a plan of super- 
vision it would naturally follow that the 
slate or government would regulate the 
officers' salaries also. The United States 
Steel Corporation paid its president $1,000, 
000.00 salary yearly for several years after 
its organization. There is a limit which the 
people can afford to pay. 
After the conclusion of the war 8 hours 
should be a working day. It is a mistake to 
make men prematurely old. We must con- 
serve our man and woman power henceforth. 
People must have diversion and recreation, 
otherwise life is reduced to a mere grind 
for the sake of efficiency. 

Bribery cannot be tolerated in our land. 
To any official who may accept or to any 
person who may give a bribe let the first 
offense be punishable with one year's ser- 
vice in the chain-gang and the second with 
fi-ve. There will not be any seconds. 
* * * * 

The Boards of Trade. The Curb. The Stock 
Exchanges. 

There was a time when people said the 
Louisiana Lottery could not be controlled, 
but Congress found a way. Now it is high 
time the Government takes steps to put out 
of commission the gambling on the Boards 
of Trade, the Curb and the Stock Ex- 
changes. 

A man, true, is a fool to try and play the 
other man's game. The manipulators have 
a way of inspiring financial rumors and mar- 
ket values by wash sales and the like, so as 
to gather in the margins coming and going. 
The poor dupes must be protected. We must 
protect legitimate buying and selling and 
cut off the gambling. A cash margin of 
25% instead of 10, with severe penalty, will 
turn the trick. 



CHAPTER XIX. 
Our Court Procedure Needs Revision, 



Our Court procedure, as now constituted. 
Federal and State, is very burdensome and 
oppressive; to such an extent that the peo- 
ple generally, all who do not designedly use 
the weakness of the procedure to rob others, 
no matter how equitable their cases may 



be, dread referring the same thereto for 
solution. We have in mind cases particular- 
ly between man and man. The people, In 
fact, have little confidence in obtaining 
proper, quick and effective judgment. It is 
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judges, or that they disapprove of the jury 
system, so much, but that the procedure is 
encumbered with so much of costs, bonds, 
appeals, retrials, delays and attorney's fees, 
that the people are worn out with the bur- 
den and worry of it. 

It is a well known fact that every civil 
case in our State Courts is open to an ap- 
peal which may drag along from two to 
four years, and in the Federal Courts even 
as long as seven years before reaching a 
final decision. This is all wrong. Here is 
where the trouble lies. It is In the erron- 
eous procedure of granting the right of ap- 
peal. 

The remedy is plain, simple and practi- 
cal; yet it will be opposed by almost all 
lawyers and statesmen and legislators, some 
f]om motives of business and personal gain, 
others because they have been educated to 
the present cumbersome system, and will 
find it hard to get out of the rut. It will, 
furthermore, be opposed by such of the rich 
as are disposed to use the defects in op- 
pression. It Is, nevertheless easy of solu- 
tion, and should be corrected without delay. 

The remedy lies simply in cutting off to 
all persons and forever the right of ap- 
peal. To give every Court original and final 
jurisdiction of the case at bar. 

Under the present system one man, or 
men in conspiracy, may defraud another of 
$10,000.00 or $50,000.00, use so much of the 
money as may be needed in fighting the 
lawful owner, keep the remainer for sever- 
al years, while pending, before an effective 
and final decree can be had. 

A man may discover and legally locate 
a valuable mine or an oil claim, a timber 
claim, a coal claim or a power site, develop 
it to a paying basis, be attacked , embarrass- 
ed in litigation, enjoined and suspended 
from operating for long periods to his great 
discomfiture and loss. Indeed, recovery of 
claims and moneys due from any source 
may be long deferred. It plays directly into 
the hands of the rascals and conspirators 
and oppressors, for they use the threat of 
delay and yet delay, new trial and the like 
to coerce the injured one to accepting an 
unfair settlement of an equitable claim. 
People rather than shoulder the burden of 
it will cut the claim in two in order to dis- 
pose of it. 

A specific case based on fact is cited. 

A Construction Company employed a con- 



sulting engineer in tunnel work and while 
walking in the open to the entrance to the 
tunnel,he was struck and instantly killed by 
a falling derrick. In the District Court his 
death was clearly traced to the neglect of 
the management, whose attention had been 
called to the defect, but who, nevertheless, 
directed the derrick be used until new 
parts, which were ordered, should arrive ; 
and judgment was awarded the widow for 
$5,000,00, the statutory liability of that 
State. 

The Consruction Company had insured 
itself against loss; and the Insurance Com- 
pany, as is its custom, defended the case. 
The attorneys by threatening the widow 
with two or three years' delay induced her 
to settle the case out of court for $3,000.00. 

Had the award of the District Court been 
final, no such cheat could have been prac- 
ticed upon her. She would have been paid 
the full amount. Such sharp practices are 
common. It is used to coerce, brow beat 
and oppress. Everybody knows an injured 
party is entitled to full, immediate and com- 
plete reparation. 

The present system is a reproach to every 
State in our Union and to the Federal 
Government as well. We should pay high 
salaries to the Judges of the lower courts, 
to the County and District Judges; and we 
should appoint or elect none but thorough- 
ly competent and able jurists to preside 
over any court whatsoever. We should pro- 
vide a sufficient number of courts, each 
with its divisions, to keep the docket clear. 
We should cut out the red tape, and im- 
peach any incompetent or corrupt judge 
and make our courts truly courts of equity. 

In the State Courts, for instance, the 
County Court might be given original and 
final jurisdiction up to $2500.00; the Dis- 
trict Court from $2500.00 to say $20,000.00, 
and the supreme Court all above this 
amount. The State's Attorney might be 
authorized to have any case involving new 
questions reviewed by the Supreme Court 
nnd interpreted merely for future reference, 
but such interpretation to have no bearing 
on the case at bar. 

Under the present system one litigant 
must win and the other lose. It would be 
he same under the revised plan, but then 
a man could have it tried and settled and 
business, all done inexpensively, as against 
finished within thirty days and go about his 



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THE KAISER AND THE TURK 



the burdensome, lingering, nerve-racking, 
experience as now, all of which is wholly 
needless. Hope deferred maketh the heart 
sick. 

The Mosaic law, which is the Divine Law, 
prescribed that the people should have right- 
eous judges without cost to the litigants, 
whose decisions were final. True, the very 
difficult problems, but they only, were ap- 
pealed to Moses. Practically all the decis- 
ions were final. We have simply departed 
from the Law of God. 

Of course, another means of relief, would 
be to provide for an appellant court to in- 
stantly review and decide each case, as ap- 
pealed but this, it would seem from the 
pjist experience, cannot be accomplished in 



actual practice. 

This is not all. It means much whether a 
State, a Government enjoys the confidence 
of its people, in the integrity, effectiveness 
and protection which it affords them as 
against cheat, fraud, and usurpation of their 
sacred rights as citizens. 

When the Government enjoys their fullest 
confidence, there is every incentive to be 
loyal and law abiding and to impart to their 
children these lofty ideals. 

A nation that claims the right to draft a 
citizen for war and to take his last dollar 
'51 case of emergency, should protect him in 
the rights which he conceives and claims 
are his due by the law of God. 



FROM AN ADDRESS BY 

The following is an extract from a 
speech made by Lieut. General Smutts, ^t 
the banquet in his honor by the members of 
both Houses of Parliament, London, May 
15, 1917, 

Speaking of the British Empire, he said: 
"I think the very expression The British 
Empire is misleading, because it makes 
people think as if we were a single entity, 
one unity, to which term "Empire" can be 
applied. We are not an "Empire." We are 
a community of Commonwealths. Germany 
in an Empire, Rome was an Empire, but we 



LEUT. GENERAL SMUTTS. 

are a system of States and of nations far 
greater than any empire that ever existed, 
and by using the ancient expression we 
really obscure the fact that our whole posi- 
tion is different. We consist of many na- 
tions and States and all sorts of communi- 
ties under one flag. A system of States, 
growing, evolving all the time towards new 
destinies. 

We are not going to force Common 
Governments, but we are going to extend 
liberty, freedom and nationhood more and 
more in every part of the Empire." 



WE BOW TO THE FRENCH AND THE ENGLISH. 



And how very gratifying it is that in 
this titanic struggle, the English speaking 
people are standing together as firm as a 
rock, and also that they are united with the 
liberty loving French, whose fine spirit, 
and undaunted courage and metal have sur- 
prised the world, and commanded the re- 
spect, confidence 'and warmest admiration 
of all; and also with the Italians and all 
the liberty loving nations. 

It is most reprehensible, to fight for a 
low, base, unworthy cause, but an honor 
and glory to fight in the cause of the just. 
' Notwithstanding the fine spirit and work 
of the armies of the Russians, Italians, Bel- 
gians, Serbians, the Japanese and of all the 



Allies, we are impelled to take off our hat 
to the French and the English. They, the 
French in concert with the small but valiant 
army of English, Scotch and Irish, turned 
back the enemy at the Marne;* they 
have held the longest line; they have 
repulsed and driven him back at Verdun. 
Both they and the English have taken works 
v/hich he claimed were impregnable, and 
both have proven that the German army, 
rotwithstanding its long practice at the 
goose-step, is not invincible. 

Hold fast, keep your nerve, reinforcements 
are coming: are on the way. As Lafayette 
came to us, so are we coming to you. 



♦Among the French. JEnglish. Scottish and Irish soldiers there are those who claim and firmly 
believe they saw an angel in the air riding a white horse : with sword in hand, which heartened 
them and enabled them to drive back the enemy at the Marne. There is nothing unreasonable in 
this. We are living in a time when the supernatural may be looked for. Once let Satan's spell 
over the German Army be broken ; let their morale give way, as it did at the Marne. and their 
collapse will be great. In His infinite uisdom the Lord of Hosts seems to 'be reserring this for the 
itpjiointed time. 



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